My problem still exists I Have spent quite a bit of time googling and reading forums and have come across a few examplse of the same problem. No real answers have emerged except to install libdvdcss2 and libreaddvd both of which I have done many times now. The device works and will read most media including mpegs but stalls on dvd for some reason. I wonder if there is a totem setting that I should have done or some simple script that I have failed to issue Any ideas would be most welcome. Regards John
I just ran totem --debug
I am struggling with try to get dvd playback.
Gui MSG Totem cannot playback maybe you do not have the required permissions. Gui MSG Totem cannot play maybe you need libdvdcss2 or download extra plugins
Terminal part msg after doing "totem dvd://" : libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hda4 for reading libdvdread: Device /dev/hda4 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available. libdvdread: Can't read name block Probably not a dvd rom device libdvdread: Unable to find map file '/home/john/.dvdnav/ map'
The device works and will read most media including mpegs but stalls on dvd for some reason. I wonder if there is a totem setting that I should have done or some simple script that I have failed to issue Any ideas would be most welcome. Regards John
If the following error dump is still accurate, it seems to me as though your /dev/dvd symlink is setup incorrectly. The errors below say that libdvdread is trying to open /dev/hda4, which is a partition on your harddisk. Can you please do the following and mail the results back to the list? ls -la /dev/dvd dmesg | grep -i dvd If you inspect the output from that second command, it should (but may not) have a device name such as "hdd" or "sdb" or simmilar. EG, mine looks like: dmesg | grep -i dvd [17179573.948000] hdd: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [17179574.096000] hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(66) So my DVD drive is on hdd. If you have similar output and can see which device ID it has been given, please do the following as well. replace 'hdd' with the device name of your dvd drive. ls -la /dev/hdd
Gui MSG Totem cannot playback maybe you do not have the required permissions. Gui MSG Totem cannot play maybe you need libdvdcss2 or download extra plugins
Terminal part msg after doing "totem dvd://" : libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hda4 for reading libdvdread: Device /dev/hda4 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available. libdvdread: Can't read name block Probably not a dvd rom device libdvdread: Unable to find map file '/home/john/.dvdnav/ map'
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