Re: _some_ DVDs won't play
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:42:19 -0800
Andrew Porter <app@tdl.com> wrote:
> Troubles playing about half of the 12 _Lord of the Rings_ DVDs
> in a set purchased from amazon,
> and on its replacement,
> and on a third set set from Best Buy.
>
> Drive: a Sony CD-RW, CRX320EE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM
> Using libdvdcss, from libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb
> xine-ui 0.99.3-1
>
> Most of the bad discs just won't play.
> On some discs, the video has a lot of square holes in it.
> On some, the DVD makes xine crash.
> One disk even made X crash.
>
> No trouble playing almost all other DVDs.
> A borrowed set of LOTR discs will play on all machines.
> Don't know when they were purchased, but not recently.
>
> QUESTIONS:
>
> Are the failures in reading LOTR discs
> known to be deliberately caused by the manufacturer,
> perhaps in revenge for DeCSS?
> So that common equipment will play the DVDs,
> but not read them error-free?
> A sort of kludgy copy-protection scheme?
>
> Just speculating ...
>
> I was told recently that the cheapest DVD drives
> have the best success rates and the least failures.
>
> Any experience from the list?
> Better to buy trash than quality,
> because trashy drives work better?
> All disks play just fine on a stand-alone DVD player connected to the TV set.
>
> > Have you tried them on a stand alone DVD player yet? That seems like
> > the logical next step in troubleshooting, y'know, making sure that they
> > weren't from a bad batch of disks at the factory. Yeah, I know. It's
> > three seperate sets from at least two different vendors (you didn't say
> > whether or not the replacement set was from the same seller on Amazon).
> > But there's still a small chance that it could just be bad disks anyway.
> >
have you tried anything besides xine? maybe vlc or mplayer? vlc is a pretty easy install, #apt-get install vlc
> >
> >
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