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    Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    Hi,

    I had a problem with all my player to run any dvds. MPlayer. VLC. and Movie player all stuck. Said 'seek-failed'. which is weird. I have used it yesterday running fine.

    Is there solution for this? Thanks

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    Re: Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    Maybe there's something wrong with the DVD disc you're trying to play? You could try if an other DVD works; if it does it's probably the DVD that is scratched or corrupt...

    The 'seek-failed' error looks like those programs can't read from that specific DVD disc.
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    Re: Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    all dvds i have tried not working on. all of them seek-failed. it wasnt like that yesterday.

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    Re: Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    Is there anything that changed since yesterday? Did you install something specific? Did you do something that could have damaged your dvd player?
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    Re: Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    I run sudo apt-get update today morning and i installed 60MB files from Update Manager. Its an usual update from Ubuntu. Does it sound causing problem?

    I installed Mplayer just today evening to back up VLC or movie player. But, all of them stop.

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    Re: Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    Maybe installing mplayer broke it? Did you install it in synaptic or manually?

    You could try uninstalling mplayer, and then try again...

    How exactly do you get the 'seek-failed' error in these programs? Could you post a screenshot of VLC showing this error?
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    Re: Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    Hereis the message.

    Playback failure:
    VLC cannot set the DVD's title. It possibly cannot decrypt the entire disc.

    I installed using repository. Il try to uninstall and reinstall tomorrow. I can watch those dvds using PS2, its working well.
    Last edited by nonicutie; November 16th, 2009 at 01:49 PM.

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    Re: Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    Hi nonicutie,

    Quote Originally Posted by nonicutie View Post
    I installed Mplayer just today evening to back up VLC or movie player. But, all of them stop.
    Can you run a dvd from the commandline with MPlayer as follows:

    Code:
    mplayer -v dvd://
    and post the full commandline and terminal output here? This will give some information about the version of MPlayer you are using and also some indication why MPlayer is failing.

    All the best,

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    Re: Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    I tried that and got the following:

    robert@rbowes-l-it-d:~$ mplayer -v dvd://
    MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
    CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 1
    CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (Family: 15, Model: 79, Stepping: 2)
    extended cpuid-level: 24
    extended cache-info: 33587520
    Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
    Testing OS support for SSE... yes.
    Tests of OS support for SSE passed.
    CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNowExt: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 SSSE3: 0
    Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
    get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/robert/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
    Reading /home/robert/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/robert/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
    Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
    Using built-in default codecs.conf.
    Configuration: --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer --datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs --enable-xvmc --enable-vdpau --enable-sdl --enable-ossaudio --enable-lirc --enable-freetype --enable-menu --enable-largefiles --extra-cflags=-I/build/buildd/mplayer-1.0~rc3+svn20090426/debian/include --disable-bitmap-font --disable-ggi --language=all --disable-xmms --disable-arts --disable-aa --disable-mad --disable-musepack --disable-libdv --disable-libavutil_a --disable-libavcodec_a --disable-libavformat_a --disable-libpostproc_a --disable-libswscale_a --enable-mp3lame --enable-faac-lavc --enable-x264-lavc --enable-mp3lame-lavc --enable-libdirac-lavc --enable-libschroedinger-lavc --target=i586-linux --enable-win32dll --enable-real --enable-xanim --enable-runtime-cpudetection --enable-vdpau --disable-libdvdcss-internal --enable-dvdread --enable-debug --enable-tv-v4l2 --enable-xmga --enable-mga --enable-3dfx --enable-tdfxfb --enable-fbdev --disable-gui
    CommandLine: '-v' 'dvd://'
    init_freetype
    Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
    get_path('fonts') -> '/home/robert/.mplayer/fonts'
    Using nanosleep() timing
    get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/robert/.mplayer/input.conf'
    Can't open input config file /home/robert/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
    Parsing input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf
    Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 89 binds
    Setting up LIRC support...
    mplayer: could not connect to socket
    mplayer: No such file or directory
    Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
    get_path('.conf') -> '/home/robert/.mplayer/.conf'

    Playing dvd://.
    get_path('sub/') -> '/home/robert/.mplayer/sub/'
    URL: dvd://
    libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
    Reading disc structure, please wait...
    libdvdread: Invalid IFO for VMGM (VIDEO_TS.IFO).
    Can't open VMG info!
    No stream found to handle url dvd://

    vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not initialized..

    Exiting... (End of file)


    I installed all of the codecs I could find in the Ubuntu software center. I installed VLC from there as well.
    Robert

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    Re: Mplayer, VLC, Movie Player not working

    Hi robert,

    Quote Originally Posted by robertmbowes View Post
    Code:
    libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
    Looks like you don't have libdvdcss2 installed. There are several ways to install it, and perhaps the easiest is to make sure you have enabled the Medibuntu repository:

    Code:
    sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list \
     --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list &&
    sudo apt-get -q update &&
    sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring &&
    sudo apt-get -q update
    and then install libdvdcss2:

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
    and with any luck this is all you will need .

    Andrew
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