[ILUG] weird dvd issue

[Steven Kavanagh]

What happens when you try to play the .vob file directly as opposed to
playing it as a DVD Video?

Regards,

Steven Kavanagh

PS: Sorry to some of you for the double post, forgot to reply to the group
also.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com> wrote:

> Steven Kavanagh wrote:
>
>> I know this may sound like an obvious one but is libdvdcss actually
>> installed on the Ubuntu OS? If not you won't be able to play commercial DVDs
>> properly, only the likes that would have been burned at home or recorded
>> from a DVD Recorder / DVDCam.
>>
>> You also may have to enable the Multiverse in your package manager to be
>> able to download and install it correctly.
>>
>
> libdvdcss is installed, and verified by playing other DVDs.
>
> remembering off-hand, I installed medibuntu, followed the instructions at
> the ubuntu Restricted Formats DVD page (including regionset), install w32
> codecs and as many "dirty" formats as I thought would be related.
>
> The DVD is "playing", via mplayer, but with a load of CRC errors and really
> bad video artefacts. This shows that libdvdcss is installed, but not working
> perfectly with the given disc. The GUI players refuse full-stop to play the
> glitchy videos.
>
> *shrug* unless otherwise given reason, I'll assume this is something
> related to hardware. It's just very weird that it's that specific DVD and
> that it works perfectly on my FC10.
>
>
> kae
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