On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:04:42PM +0100, François Patte wrote:
> Le 21/03/2016 22:47, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> >
> >
> > On 03/22/16 05:40, François Patte wrote:
> >> Le 21/03/2016 15:11, Tim a écrit :
> >>> Allegedly, on or about 18 March 2016, François Patte sent:
> >>>> I am facing a strange problem with xfce configuration: when I put a
> >>>> commercial video dvd in the drive: no icon appears on the desktop. and
> >>>> there are error messages in /var/log/messages, like:
> >>>>
> >>>> blk_update_request: I/O error, dev, sr0 sector 9137664
> >>>>
> >>>> buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 1142208 async page read
> >>>>
> >>>> But, I can play the video with vlc without any problem....
> >>>>
> >>>> If I mount this dvd (say: mount /dev/sr0 /media), no problem, no error
> >>>> reported....
> >>>>
> >>>> When I umount the dvd (umount /media), an icon appears on the desktop
> >>>> and immediately disappears.....
> >>>>
> >>>> This problem does not occur with dvd I recorded myself, nor with any
> >>>> other removable media (usb sticks or drives).
> >>> An educated guess: This would be an encrypted, deliberately-faulted
> >>> (some discs have deliberate errors that confuse the hell out of
> >>> computers, but standalone DVD players will simply bypass), or some other
> >>> kind of copyguarded DVD, some of which are a major pain to do anything
> >>> with on a Windows OS PC. Even my old dreaded Windows installation would
> >>> refuse to even load some DVDs to look at the files in the file browser,
> >>> never mind trying to play them. Your VLC installation *may* have
> >>> support for handling such DVDs in a different manner.
> >>>
> >>> Of course, it could just be a bad disc (you don't mention whether it's
> >>> just one problem disc), or it may need cleaning, or your drive may need
> >>> cleaning.
> >> This problem occurs with 2 machines (laptop) on which I installed fedora
> >> 23. Problem does not occur on a third computer running fedora 21. On one
> >> of the laptops where previously installed a debian, and no problem occured.
> >>
> >> It is not a vlc problem; vlc mounts and reads these dvd without any
> >> problem, I think that it is an xfce problem, but on my fedora 21 I have
> >> the same version of xfce as on laptops with fedora 23.
> >
> > Is libdvdcss (not a fedora package) installed on your working systems?
>
> Of course! If not vlc does not read dvd. But, is libdvdcss is reponsible
> for the display of dvd icons? I am wondering if there is not a bug
> there: I took libdvdcss from remi repo (livna was out of order at that
> time).
FYI, you can also get libdvdcss directly from the vlc web site.
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