Hi, I was most disgusted to find that to watch a dvd I rented last night I had to boot to doze. Luckily I just bought a new drive and had the OEM powerdvd, cos I haven't tried to do anything with a dvd in years under doze. I get the following error message from dvdrip 0.50.18:
... libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access [tcprobe] DVD image/device libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Can't seek to block 2812127 libdvdread: Can't seek to block 2812127 libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 2 (VTS_02_0.IFO). Can't open the title 2 info file. (probe_dvd.c) failed to probe DVD title information [tcprobe] failed to probe source It may be invalid but powerdvd certainly manages to read it no probs. The problems started a couple of weeks ago but I thought they were related to my aging dvd drive. One gets similar messages (or vaguely anyway) when disks are scratched or dirty, and I also had problems with the head on the other drive (I think). It is not just transcode that has problems - neither xine nor mplayer can play the dvds (they around 1/2-2/3 through and then bail), and most annoyingly of all, a dumpstream on mplayer exits about 4/5s of the way through the movie reporting success! Argh! I thought it might be a problem with the ugly state of my portage but I get a slightly different problem on a recently installed laptop running gentoo ~x86. On the laptop a dumpstream gets most of the way through and then starts transferring bytes about 8 at a time - with about 30 seconds between reads - clearly not an option for the last 1 gig! Seeing the problems I tried (on machine 1) remerging and the merging ~x86 versions of libdvdread and libdvdcss but no change. Any help or even similar stories would be most appreciated. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
