[Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs

2023-03-06 Thread Rob Malpass via Hampshire 
Hi all

This might sound like an old chestnut but I'm fed up of googling because it
is qutie "subtle"

I have some home-recorded DVDs (converted to ISO)  which won't play on VLC
on Ubuntu (Jammy).  VLC opens and crashes immediately.   The trouble is:
* The same files play fine on VLC on both Mac and Windows
* Some other home-made DVD ISOs play fine on Jammy.   It may be that I
recorded the working ones with one DVD recorder and the non-working ones
with another DVD recorder.   Come what may - both Mac and Windows will play
all of them.

I've run vlc from the command line and I get the error below.   It looks
like it's something to do with a locale.   FWIW I've changed the output
between wayland on gnome and X11 - but neither works.   Any ideas anyone?

Cheers
Rob

VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/index.bdmv
disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/BACKUP/index.bdmv
bluray.c:2652: nav_get_title_list((null)) failed
dbus[7041]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect,
assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file
../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2760.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted (core dumped)
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Re: [Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs

2023-03-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire 
Hi Rob,

I've looked through some D-Bus code, and I think there's an environment 
variable that might let it continue after this error. Can you try:

`DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0 vlc`

`Best wishes,`
`Thomas`

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023, at 08:51, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> This might sound like an old chestnut but I'm fed up of googling because it 
> is qutie "subtle"
> 
> I have some home-recorded DVDs (converted to ISO)  which won't play on VLC on 
> Ubuntu (Jammy).  VLC opens and crashes immediately.   The trouble is:
> * The same files play fine on VLC on both Mac and Windows
> * Some other home-made DVD ISOs play fine on Jammy.   It may be that I 
> recorded the working ones with one DVD recorder and the non-working ones with 
> another DVD recorder.   Come what may - both Mac and Windows will play all of 
> them.
> 
> I've run vlc from the command line and I get the error below.   It looks like 
> it's something to do with a locale.   FWIW I've changed the output between 
> wayland on gnome and X11 - but neither works.   Any ideas anyone?
> 
> Cheers
> Rob
> 
> VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
> Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use 
> QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
> disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/index.bdmv
> disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/BACKUP/index.bdmv
> bluray.c:2652: nav_get_title_list((null)) failed
> dbus[7041]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, 
> assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file 
> ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2760.
> This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
> 
>   D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
> Aborted (core dumped)
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Re: [Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs

2023-03-06 Thread Brad Rogers via Hampshire 
On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:51:39 +
Rob Malpass via Hampshire  wrote:

Hello Rob,

>VLC opens and crashes immediately. 

What happens if you move your current VLC config out of the way?
(just rename ~/.config/vlcrc)

I had VLC crashing left, right and centre for a while.  Deleting the
existing config cured the problem.  Sometimes a small hammer blow is
necessary - even though, ideally, we'd like to know *why* it broke.

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Re: [Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs

2023-03-06 Thread Rob via Hampshire 
Thanks Thomas - that's done the trick.   Will setup an alias or a one line
shell script now.

 

Cheers

Rob

 

From: Hampshire  On Behalf Of Thomas
Kluyver via Hampshire
Sent: 06 March 2023 09:21
To: Rob Malpass via Hampshire 
Cc: Thomas Kluyver 
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs

 

Hi Rob,

 

I've looked through some D-Bus code, and I think there's an environment
variable that might let it continue after this error. Can you try:

 

DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0 vlc

 

Best wishes,

Thomas

 

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023, at 08:51, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote:

Hi all

 

This might sound like an old chestnut but I'm fed up of googling because it
is qutie "subtle"

 

I have some home-recorded DVDs (converted to ISO)  which won't play on VLC
on Ubuntu (Jammy).  VLC opens and crashes immediately.   The trouble is:

* The same files play fine on VLC on both Mac and Windows

* Some other home-made DVD ISOs play fine on Jammy.   It may be that I
recorded the working ones with one DVD recorder and the non-working ones
with another DVD recorder.   Come what may - both Mac and Windows will play
all of them.

 

I've run vlc from the command line and I get the error below.   It looks
like it's something to do with a locale.   FWIW I've changed the output
between wayland on gnome and X11 - but neither works.   Any ideas anyone?

 

Cheers

Rob

 

VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)

Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.

disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/index.bdmv

disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/BACKUP/index.bdmv

bluray.c:2652: nav_get_title_list((null)) failed

dbus[7041]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect,
assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file
../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2760.

This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

 

  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

Aborted (core dumped)

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Re: [Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs

2023-03-06 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire 
On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 at 08:53, Rob Malpass via Hampshire <
hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> This might sound like an old chestnut but I'm fed up of googling because
> it is qutie "subtle"
>
> I have some home-recorded DVDs (converted to ISO)  which won't play on VLC
> on Ubuntu (Jammy).  VLC opens and crashes immediately.   The trouble is:
> * The same files play fine on VLC on both Mac and Windows
> * Some other home-made DVD ISOs play fine on Jammy.   It may be that I
> recorded the working ones with one DVD recorder and the non-working ones
> with another DVD recorder.   Come what may - both Mac and Windows will play
> all of them.
>
> I've run vlc from the command line and I get the error below.   It looks
> like it's something to do with a locale.   FWIW I've changed the output
> between wayland on gnome and X11 - but neither works.   Any ideas anyone?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
>
>
Hi,

VLC should work, but if it does not, you could always try "xine" or
"xine-ui".
I wrote a lot of the DVD playing features in xine, so I know it should work
fine.
xine also handles all the DVD menus, if you want the full DVD experience.

Kind Regards

James
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