Re: fc4 - dvdrip/libdvdcss can't access /dev/dvd

Dag Wieers wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jeremy Rosengren wrote:

Matthias Saou wrote:

Jeremy Rosengren wrote :

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/hdc with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hdc for reading
(iodump.c) unable to open directory "/dev/hdc"

/dev/hdc is the device of my DVD drive, and is owned by the user running
dvdrip, with 666 permissions. selinux is disabled.

Is this a libdvdread problem or a libdvdcss problem?

Good question, seems strange :-/

Could you try reading the DVD with xine or mplayer and see what gives?

mplayer dvd://1 and xine both died when trying to read the DVD. mplayer's error was similar to the
error that dvdrip gave, xine gave some cryptic error that I interpret to be similar. Neither
mplayer nor xine were able to access the DVD drive.

Does this happen with other DVDs (or even CDs) too ?
Can you mount the DVD like a normal CD ?
Does /var/log/messages give an error indication ?

I remember having problems with some of the DVD libraries on 1 single DVD
that played well on another system. After cleaning it, it worked. YMMV

I guess I was assuming that the disc wasn't the problem -- it's a DVD
of a television series and I hadn't had any problems with any of the
other discs. I'll try some other discs tonight to see if it might just
be that one disc. I've been subscribed to a DVD-by-mail service for
awhile now, and while I've had discs that gave me read errors during
ripping, this is the first I've had that failed immediately -- which
made me immediately suspect libdvdread or libdvdcss.

Since I won't have the ability to try other discs until later tonight,
in the meantime can anybody confirm that they're able to rip a DVD with
perl-Video-DVDRip (from freshrpms) on FC4?

Thanks,

-- jeremy