Re: [Bug #2171] Fedora Core 2 unable to play DVDs (kernel 2.6.6)

> Mon Aug 02 2004, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Details: Hi !
>> I was an Ogle user in Redhat 7.3 (various 2.4 kernels, various Ogle
>> versions)
>> Since my Fedora Core2 install (kernel 2.6.6) I'm unable to read a DVD. I
>> get various errors, the most frequent one being the device trying to
>> access un existent block.
>> So I upgraded all my Ogle and dvd libs RPM using Livna repository, and
>> tried a "known to work" DVD (Thomas Crown affair from MGM with Pierce
>> Brosnan) and got the following errors :
>
>> libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3056049
>> libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 3 (VTS_03_0.IFO).
>> FATAL[ogle_nav]: ifoOpenVTSI failed
>> ctrl: ipc_rmid: Invalid argument
>
>> The hardware remainded the same : Pioneer DR305S on a Tekram DC 390U2W
>> card.
>> I'm in no way a developper, but may provide further information if
>> asked.
>
> Did you try the ogle-0.9.2-ogle1alsa.i586.rpm from
> www.dtek.chalmers.se/~dvd ?
> Does it work differently?
>
> I'm not sure what has changed that makes it fail.
> Maybe there is some problem with scsi-dvds in the 2.6 kernels?
> Anyone else that has one and runs a 2.6 kernel?
>
This have come up a few times in the past, see
http://www.via.ecp.fr/ml/videolan/vlc/200111/msg00067.html
http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc/200112/msg00043.html
also a few private email exchanges.
At least two of the three SCSI drives, DVD-burners and
pioneer-drives have been involved in all cases.

But... 1) make sure libdvdcss is installed.
2) make sure that you have premission to write to the
drives device node (I think this is necessary).
3) try disabling the key caching in libdvdcss

/Håkan