Re: unable to rip/play DVDs on PB5,4

[Tamas K Papp <tpapp@Princeton.EDU>]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:27:07PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
> 'ello,
> 
> I installed acidrip on my Athlon box and it works fine when reading and
> ripping a given DVD (that appears to be encrypted).  However, on my PB,
> with the same setup (but mplayer-g4 instead of -k6) it simply fails to
> read the disc, suggesting that it may be faulty.  I also can't play the
> disc using mplayer for the same reason.  The error message I get from
> lsdvd on the PB is:
> 
> matatk@oberon:/usr/share/doc/libdvdcss2$ lsdvd /dev/hdc
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 1 (VTS_01_0.IFO).
> Can't open ifo 1!
> matatk@oberon:/usr/share/doc/libdvdcss2$
> 
> and:
> 
> matatk@oberon:/usr/share/doc/libdvdcss2$ dpkg -l | grep dvd
> ii  dvd+rw-tools   5.21.4.10.8-1  DVD+-RW/R tools
> ii  libdvdcss2     1.2.8-0.0      Simple foundation for reading DVDs -
> runtime
> ii  libdvdread3    0.9.4-5        Simple foundation for reading DVDs
> ii  lsdvd          0.10-0.0       read the contents of a DVD
> matatk@oberon:/usr/share/doc/libdvdcss2$
> 
> which is the same set of packages and versions that my Athlon desktop
> has.  Any thoughts on what's going on?

Acidrip has an option somewhere to work around a "PPC bug", have you
tried that?

You might want to rip using dvdbackup and encode from hard disk.

Tamas