[DVDnav-discuss] DVD works with dvdnav but not with dvdread

[Nico Sabbi]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008 10:13:13 Frederik Holljen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a DVD where the main title works fine when reading it with
> libdvdnav but crashes when reading it with libdvdread (error: read
> failed for 2/4 blocks at 0x1ff5). The DVD seems to work fine in any
> other player I've tried. I've tried to copy the complete contents
> of the disk and got no read errors.
>
> I tested this with vlc (Sorry, I know you are mplayer guys..) using
> dvd:// and dvdsimple:// with the default libdvdnav and libdvdread
> in ubuntu 8.10. The versioning of the packages is slightly
> confusing so I'm not exactly sure which version I actually have.
>
> Is this something you want to pursue? If so, what is the best way
> to help you?
>

ever heard of crippled dvds to prevent copy? Relying on the DVD-VM
that dvdnav uses but dvdread doesn't is one of those nice practices