Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny
install kaffeine
using apt-get install kaffeine
kaffeine is sometimes better at running encrypted dvd's than vlc - provided
you've installed libdvdcss2 first
installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg using synaptic package manager might also
help
dewi
Girish Kulkarni-2 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
>
> I run Lenny on a Dell Insprion 640m laptop that uses a Sony Optiarc
> AD-5540A DVD player. The player had its DVD region code set to 3 so I
> couldn't play India-only DVDs (region code 5) on it.
>
> Regionset smoothly changed the drive's region code to 5. But I still
> am unable to play encrypted DVDs on it. In fact, I can only play
> unencrypted DVDs (marked with region code ALL).
>
> With a region code 5 DVD in the drive, "mplayer dvd://1" throws this
> and hangs:
>
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2050 @1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14,
> Stepping: 8)
> CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
> control.
>
> Playing dvd://1.
> libdvdread: Invalid IFO for VMGM (VIDEO_TS.IFO).
> There are 2 titles on this DVD.
> There are 46 chapters in this DVD title.
> There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
> audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.
> audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 129.
> number of audio channels on disk: 2.
> subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
> number of subtitles on disk: 1
> MPEG-PS file format detected.
>
> Totem and VLC fail too. The disk is probably okay because it played
> on someone's Windows desktop. What is going wrong? Can I trust
> regionset? I checked debian-user archives and looked up on Google --
> regionset seems to have worked for most people.
>
> Any comments will help.
>
> Thanks,
> Girish.
>
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> Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish
>
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