Hiya. Is it a special kind of play protection, or just a scratch at precisely the wrong place? $> mplayer -identify dvd:// MPlayer SVN-r31371-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Playing dvd://. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access ID_DVD_TITLES=16 ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=13 ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_2_CHAPTERS=13 ID_DVD_TITLE_2_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_3_CHAPTERS=2 ID_DVD_TITLE_3_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_4_CHAPTERS=2 ID_DVD_TITLE_4_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_5_CHAPTERS=2 ID_DVD_TITLE_5_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_6_CHAPTERS=2 ID_DVD_TITLE_6_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_7_CHAPTERS=6 ID_DVD_TITLE_7_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_8_CHAPTERS=6 ID_DVD_TITLE_8_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_9_CHAPTERS=2 ID_DVD_TITLE_9_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_10_CHAPTERS=2 ID_DVD_TITLE_10_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_11_CHAPTERS=4 ID_DVD_TITLE_11_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_12_CHAPTERS=4 ID_DVD_TITLE_12_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_13_CHAPTERS=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_13_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_14_CHAPTERS=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_14_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_15_CHAPTERS=2 ID_DVD_TITLE_15_ANGLES=1 ID_DVD_TITLE_16_CHAPTERS=2 ID_DVD_TITLE_16_ANGLES=1 libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_01_0.IFO). ID_DVD_TITLE_3_LENGTH=108.160 ID_DVD_TITLE_4_LENGTH=108.160 ID_DVD_TITLE_5_LENGTH=1162.760 ID_DVD_TITLE_6_LENGTH=1162.760 ID_DVD_TITLE_7_LENGTH=246.000 ID_DVD_TITLE_8_LENGTH=246.000 ID_DVD_TITLE_9_LENGTH=893.880 ID_DVD_TITLE_10_LENGTH=893.880 ID_DVD_TITLE_11_LENGTH=1341.800 ID_DVD_TITLE_12_LENGTH=1341.800 ID_DVD_TITLE_13_LENGTH=9.160 ID_DVD_TITLE_14_LENGTH=20.000 ID_DVD_TITLE_15_LENGTH=56.240 ID_DVD_TITLE_16_LENGTH=56.240 libdvdread: DVDDiscId read returned 0 bytes, wanted 104448 ID_DVD_VOLUME_ID=DER_KNOCHENMANN There are 16 titles on this DVD. ID_DVD_CURRENT_TITLE=1 There are 1 angles in this DVD title. libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_01_0.IFO). Cannot open the IFO file for DVD title 1. No stream found to handle url dvd:// Exiting... (End of file) ID_EXIT=EOF Greets, Kiste