Re: DVD: ogle crashes randonly ???

[vitko <vitk0@seznam.cz>]

> I have a new HP xw9300, dual 2.5 GHz cpus, 6 GB RAM, KDE -- everything
> appears to work as expected -- except playing DVD's ;<

Well,

   mplayer dvd://

is enough for me, but but Gnome's totem plays DVDs just fine and maybe
some KDE user will post his/her favorite KDE DVD playing app.

> I googled, and found ogle.  I installed ogle-gui & ogle-mmx.  I am able

Last time I saw ogle (winter 2005?) it looked a bit outdated. It
supports DVD menus, though.

> ogle crashes.  I restart it, playing _same_ DVD, and it invariably
> crashes at some other point of play time.
> 
> /var/log _sometimes_ shows this; other times NOT:
> 
>     Aug 29 23:56:25 odin kernel: hda: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>     Aug 29 23:56:25 odin kernel: hda: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 }
>     Aug 29 23:56:25 odin kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>     Aug 29 23:56:25 odin kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 192888

Looks like some kind of DVD copy "protection". Have a look at the DVD
backcover, it should be mentioned there.

Vit