>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Patrick> On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 07:45 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> On two separate machines (both running Fedora 9) VLC fails when
>> trying to play DVDs, complaining of kernel errors trying to
>> read a particular sector (and just repeats - it is very hard to
>> actually stop - in one case i had to reboot the machine).
>>
>> Aug 10 07:35:02 susannah kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev
>> sr0, sector 4851460
>>
>> My SONY VAIO laptop, running Windows XP plays it without a
>> problem.
Patrick> Is this a specific DVD or does it happen on several? Does
Patrick> it always complain about the same sector? Does the DVD
Patrick> play with Mplayer, Xine or Totem? If it, or they, are
Patrick> commercial DVDs, do you have libdvdcss (from Livna)?
I tried with two different DVDs. It was a different sector in each
case, but it was always the same sector for a given DVD.
They are commercial. Totem wouldn't play them because of proprietary
codec needed.
Libdvdcss is not installed, so i just installed it.
And now it works!
Thanks.
--
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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