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vierdreieins
July 14th, 2008, 12:56 PM
At first, DVDs were working fine; I had all the codecs installed and it worked perfectly. Yesterday, however, I got an error message in Totem stating "An error occurred: Could not read from resource."

The disc is mounting and is on my desktop. I reinstalled libdvdcss2, and double-checked to make sure it was using the right device. Sometimes it doesn't mount at all, but when it does, VLC tries to play it, and the screen is a bit scrambled for a second before it cuts off and gives up.

I also tried Kaffeine, and it gives me a few error messages on start up. First, it says that libdvdcss isn't installed, though it is. (Not sure if the 2 makes it unrecognizable.) It also says permission denied to access my DVD drive. In the terminal it says this:

kbuildsycoca running...
DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device


Any ideas?

vierdreieins
July 14th, 2008, 07:13 PM
I followed someone's advice and tried SMPlayer, and although it got the DVD actually playing, I still can't watch because it skips and the image is completely scrambled.