Playing crypted DVD's under AMD64

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JefPober · Post by **JefPober** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:39 am

I'm having a whole lot of problems playing some crypted DVD's. All DVD's I'm tring to play are in my own region and I already set my region with regionset.

Xine gives the known error message:

Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws ... libdvdcss ...

These packages (related to DVD playback) are installed:

[ebuild R ] media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc6 +X -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts +avi -debug -directfb +dvd +esd +gnome -ipv6 +nls +oggvorbis +sdl -speex -theora 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-libs/libdvdcss-1.2.8 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-libs/libdvdnav-0.1.9 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.4 0 kB

The commandline gives this (notice the strange libdvdcss message about /dev/sdc on /)

This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.23.
(c) 2000-2003 The xine Team.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc6a from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/sdc2 mounted on / for CSS authentication
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/sdc2 with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/sdc2 for reading
libdvdread: Device /dev/sdc2 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.
libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/tim/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc6a from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdnav: DVD Title: La meglio dvd2
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: c4c77a65
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): La meglio dvd2
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/tim/.dvdnav/La meglio dvd2.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fd0000. Regions: 2

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0000013c
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000007e1
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00040901
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0

Regionset:

root@athlon64 tim # regionset
regionset version 0.1 -- reads/sets region code on DVD drives
Current Region Code settings:
RPC Phase: II
type: SET
vendor resets available: 4
user controlled changes resets available: 4
drive plays discs from region(s): 2, mask=0xFD

Some related config things in .xine/config:

# default language for DVD playback
# string, default: en
#input.dvd_language:en

# region the DVD player claims to be in (1 to
# numeric, default: 1
input.dvd_region:2

# device used for DVD playback
# string, default: /dev/dvd
#input.dvd_device:/dev/dvd

# raw device set up for DVD access
# string, default: /dev/rdvd
#input.dvd_raw_device:/dev/rdvd

# read-ahead caching
# bool, default: 1
#input.dvd_use_readahead:1

# CSS decryption method
# { key disc title }, default: 0
input.css_decryption_method:key

Anyone has a solution for this problem?

The Shadow Surfer · Post by **The Shadow Surfer** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:08 pm

try ogle

I use it, and it work perfect

blueworm · Post by **blueworm** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:30 pm

Is your dvd SCSI ? If not turn off SCSI CDROM support.

JefPober · Post by **JefPober** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:09 pm

The Shadow Surfer wrote:try ogle

I use it, and it work perfect

I'm having a weird problem with Ogle that I can't seem to have real fullscreen (when I press F I get the original video with black borders).

Also when tring with Ogle I get these messages all the time:

WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Found a scrambled PES packet! (1)
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Found a scrambled PES packet! (1)

Same with mplayer (although the message itself is different, it says the same). Watched the DVD with mplayer / Ogle gives quirky result (not full framerate).

Is your dvd SCSI ? If not turn off SCSI CDROM support.

No it isn't and the only SCSI things in my kernel are for SATA-support. I'm compîling a new kernel ATM to see if it's kernel related.

Another finding: the directory .dvdcss/LA_MEGLIO_DVD2#0000000000000000/
gets created but stays empty :/

Anyway thanks for the help!

JefPober · Post by **JefPober** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:43 pm

The Saga Continues...

I flashed both of my DVD drives with a new regionfree firmware but still the same

mooseboy · Post by **mooseboy** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:12 am

have you tried another digital video disc?

barry · Post by **barry** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:24 am

Where does /dev/dvd link to? Make sure it links to your DVD Rom drive.

Try logging in as a freshly created user, to make sure it's nothing in your user configuration.

JefPober · Post by **JefPober** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:00 am

I'm getting certain that it's a DVD-production fault and not drive/OS-related. Other DVD's play fine and their keys get stored in .dvdcss . I'll see if my little C knowledge somehow is adequate to write a little program that somehow manages to retrieve the keys because once I have them I'll be able to play the DVD (I think)

JefPober · Post by **JefPober** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:44 am

It works with VLC