[mythtv-users] Re:DVD playback

[Jeremy Hanmer]

that's either a disk or drive error.  I'd suggest verifying it with xine
and then possibly upgrading your kernel since it may very well be a
driver issue.

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 23:22, Andy wrote:
> >> When I put a DVD in the drive and select "Play DVD" The DVD activity
> light 
> >> comes on, as does the HD light, but I see no video, just same "Play DVD" 
> >> "Play VCD" "Rip DVD" icons. I cannot Esc out of this and have to reboot 
> >> the computer to get out of this. 
> 
> > Which player program are you using for DVD playback? Check your settings, 
> > then run that exact command from a shell and see what happens. You'll 
> > likely get more information about what's going wrong (MPlayer, for one, 
> > spits out a tremendous amount of detail about what it's doing) to help 
> > you debug the problem. 
> 
> > Make sure you do this as the same user that runs the mythfrontend process,
> 
> > in case this is a permissions issue or something else user-dependent.
> 
> The command was:
> mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /dev/dvd -fs -zoom -vo xv
> 
> Ran it at a terminal, and got after a bunch of config notices and a notice
> saying there is no css library,
> "Reading Disc Structure, Please Wait"
> "There are xx Chapters" etc.
> "DVD successfully opened"
> "MPEG-PS file format detected"
> 
> It just sits there after that, happily reading away at the DVD, but no video
> comes up on the screen.
> I did an CTRL-ALT-F1, and in that terminal window saw, flashing down the
> screen at a great rate:
> "I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector xxxxxxx" (xxxxxxx being a high number)
> The sector numbers were increasing by 1 at a very quick pace down the
> screen.
> 
> Tried it without the -vo argument just to see, made no difference.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -Andy.
> 
> 
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