[DVDnav-discuss] Question: libdvdread - Playing faulty/scratchy DVDs under Linux

[Sven Nielsen]

Hi all,

I experienced quite a few dvds that would simply stop playing at some point in the movie. The movie just stops and mplayer e.g. states EOF for the movie file without actually giving an error message. I'm using lenny stable and mplayer. The same DVDs however, mostly play fine under Windows (actually Windows running in vmware on the _same_ PC, so using the same DVD drive as under Linux).

Could this be related to bad handling of read errors from the DVD (e.g. surface scratches and marks) or could it have something to do with switching to second layer on double-layer DVDs?
The DVDs i had problems with mostly stop playing at roughly around 65 minutes of movie thats why I guess it might be switching to second layer.


regards,
Sven