[MPlayer-users] Unable to read certain DVDs: Invalid NAVI packet!

[Paul Adams]

Paul Adams wrote:

>RC wrote:
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>>On Mon, 02 May 2005 17:51:47 +0100
>>Paul Adams <linux at thoughtcriminal.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>Both the dvd
>>>player and dvd are brand new, and I am able to  play other dvds.
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>>>Can anyone give me any help getting this to work.
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>>Do you have an "-alang" option in your mplayer.conf?  You didn't specify
>>one on the command line.  Something like "-alang en" on the command-line
>>might get it to work.
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>>"-v -v -v" is quite a bit more verbose than necessary, you might want to
>>use just a single "-v" for future logs.
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>Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately it hasn't helped. I am getting
>the same errors, plus I have the following over and over from dmesg:
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>hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hda: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 }
>ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 4630488
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>I have played the DVD in an XBox (which isn't exactly the highest
>quality hardware ;-)) and it plays fine there too. Maybe its something
>in my kernel configuration?
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I figured it out. The problem was that the player had not been
initialised for region 2, hence all the errors.

Cheers, Paul