Codecs for VLC

[Suvayu Ali]

On Saturday 02 January 2010 01:23 PM, Jim wrote:
> On 01/02/2010 02:22 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> Okay. Now's the time for more details. What kind of DVD videos are you
>> trying to play: commercial, private, off brand, foreign, pirated,
>> etc.? What happens, shows on the monitor, etc. when you insert the
>> DVD? What does dmesg report? Do music and data DVD/CDs work okay?
>>
>> B
>>
> Commercial videos is where I have the problems.
>
> Data DVD/CDs work okay.
>
> There is no error messages in /var/log/messages, I run the command tail
> -f /var/log/messages and get no output when I run VLC from command line.
>
> $ vlc
>
> VLC media player 1.0.4 Goldeneye
>
> [0x1b24098] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
> 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
>
> [0x7ffdc8001478] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
>
> [0x7ffde4000c98] main input error: open of `vcd:///dev/sr0' failed: (null)
>
> [0x7ffdc8001258] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
>
> [0x7ffde40018b8] main input error: open of `vcd:///dev/sr0' failed: (null)
>

I think this might be the problem. Right now I am watching a commercial 
DVD with VLC. (totem also works) What does `dmesg |tail -20' give you? 
On my system this is what I get when I put DVDs in my DVD drive.

> UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
> UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume 'CHIUCK_SEASON_1_DISC_1', timestamp 2008/06/24 08:42 (1e20)
> SELinux: initialized (dev sr0, type udf), uses genfs_contexts
> UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
> UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume 'VAI-D1', timestamp 2009/08/12 11:05 (1e20)
> SELinux: initialized (dev sr0, type udf), uses genfs_contexts

PS: I am making a wild guess, could you try something like this to play 
your DVD: `vlc dvd:///dev/sr0'

btw, Seabiscuit is one awesome movie.
-- 
Suvayu

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