[mythtv-users] DVD playback

[Ramon Redondo]

On 2/17/06, Thomas Baker <thomas.baker at villanova.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I think someone has posted this problem before, but I did not see a
> solution.  When playing DVD's (in either mythtv or with a standalone
> player such as mplayer or xine) the DVD will play but then suddenly cut
> out at some point in the middle.  The only error message in mythfrontend
> is just the it's an end of file and it is exiting.  When using Xine, it
> says "The source cannot be read.  Maybe you don't have enough rights for
> this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g: not disk in drive). (Error
> reading NAV packet.)"  Some discs get farther than others but usually
> each disc has the same cutoff point. I have libdvdread and libdvdcss
> installed via yum.  Please help, my roomates are growing angry because
> they can't watch DVD's and I may be replaced with a roommate that is
> more M$ friendly.



I've seen this happen when my DVD drive started to fail.  Before xine would
give up, the video and audio would stutter VERY badly, and then I would get
a similar error as you show above.  A given DVD would consistantly fail near
the same point.  Sometimes I could skip past that point and watch the rest
of the disc.  Other discs would seem to work perfectly.  Replacing the DVD
drive fixed it for me.
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