Kernel errors reading DVD

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> writes:

    Patrick> On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 07:45 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >> On two separate machines (both running Fedora 9) VLC fails when
    >> trying to play DVDs, complaining of kernel errors trying to
    >> read a particular sector (and just repeats - it is very hard to
    >> actually stop - in one case i had to reboot the machine).
    >> 
    >> Aug 10 07:35:02 susannah kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev
    >> sr0, sector 4851460
    >> 
    >> My SONY VAIO laptop, running Windows XP plays it without a
    >> problem.

    Patrick> Is this a specific DVD or does it happen on several? Does
    Patrick> it always complain about the same sector? Does the DVD
    Patrick> play with Mplayer, Xine or Totem? If it, or they, are
    Patrick> commercial DVDs, do you have libdvdcss (from Livna)?

I tried with two different DVDs. It was a different sector in each
case, but it was always the same sector for a given DVD.

They are commercial. Totem wouldn't play them because of proprietary
codec needed.

Libdvdcss is not installed, so i just installed it.

And now it works!

Thanks.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire