On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:42:19 -0800 Andrew Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Troubles playing about half of the 12 _Lord of the Rings_ DVDs > in a set purchased from amazon, > and on its replacement, > and on a third set set from Best Buy. > > Drive: a Sony CD-RW, CRX320EE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM > Using libdvdcss, from libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb > xine-ui 0.99.3-1 > > Most of the bad discs just won't play. > On some discs, the video has a lot of square holes in it. > On some, the DVD makes xine crash. > One disk even made X crash. > > No trouble playing almost all other DVDs. > A borrowed set of LOTR discs will play on all machines. > Don't know when they were purchased, but not recently. > > QUESTIONS: > > Are the failures in reading LOTR discs > known to be deliberately caused by the manufacturer, > perhaps in revenge for DeCSS? > So that common equipment will play the DVDs, > but not read them error-free? > A sort of kludgy copy-protection scheme? > > Just speculating ... > > I was told recently that the cheapest DVD drives > have the best success rates and the least failures. > > Any experience from the list? > Better to buy trash than quality, > because trashy drives work better? > All disks play just fine on a stand-alone DVD player connected to the TV set. > > > Have you tried them on a stand alone DVD player yet? That seems like > > the logical next step in troubleshooting, y'know, making sure that they > > weren't from a bad batch of disks at the factory. Yeah, I know. It's > > three seperate sets from at least two different vendors (you didn't say > > whether or not the replacement set was from the same seller on Amazon). > > But there's still a small chance that it could just be bad disks anyway. > > have you tried anything besides xine? maybe vlc or mplayer? vlc is a pretty easy install, #apt-get install vlc > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ---------- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
