[MPlayer-users] dvd play problem (scrambled)

Mon Apr 2 18:49:59 CEST 2007

Got this DVD (original and yes, it is mine!) Revenge of the Sith. It 
plays well in my set-top box, in my other computers, but not on my 
laptop (all linux). At this point I can't think what is the cause? Bad 
software combination or faulty hardware???
Just so that we are clear, I am using the same mplayer package in both 
my laptop and my desktop, and it is the latest as far as I can tell:

apollo>rpm -qi mplayer
Name        : mplayer                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.0                               Vendor: Freshrpms.net
Release     : 0.34.rc1try2.fc6              Build Date: Tue 09 Jan 2007 
05:22:36 AM EST
Install Date: Fri 23 Mar 2007 03:47:59 PM EDT      Build Host: 
python3.freshrpms.net
Group       : Applications/Multimedia       Source RPM: 
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.src.rpm
Size        : 9790633                          License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 09 Jan 2007 05:23:30 AM EST, Key ID 
692ac459e42d547b
Packager    : Matthias Saou <matthias at rpmforge.net>
URL         : http://mplayerhq.hu/
Summary     : MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux
Description :
MPlayer is a multimedia player. It plays most video formats as well as DVDs.
Its big feature is the wide range of supported output drivers. There are 
also
nice antialiased shaded subtitles and OSD.

On x86, additional Win32 binary codecs should be added to /usr/lib/codecs/.

Available rpmbuild rebuild options :
--with : dvdread
--without : aalib lirc cdparanoia arts xvid esd lzo fame caca dvb vstream
             theora osdmenu gcccheck fribidi xvmc x264 faac mpc live ladspa
             amrnb samba speex

Ok, and the problem here goes:

apollo>mplayer dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
control.

Playing CHARLOTTE_DISC1/VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_2.VOB.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
a52: CRC check failed!
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
a52: error at resampling
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
A: 936.2 V:   0.1 A-V:936.122 ct:  0.000   1/  1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
^[[J^Ma52: CR
C check failed!
a52: error at resampling
a52: CRC check failed!
a52: error at resampling
a52: CRC check failed!
a52: error at resampling
A: 936.8 V: 936.7 A-V:  0.017 ct:  0.002   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
^[[J^MA: 936.
8 V: 936.8 A-V:  0.001 ct:  0.002   3/  3 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 ^[[J^MA: 
936.8 V: 93
6.8 A-V: -0.004 ct:  0.001   4/  4 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 ^[[J^MA: 936.9 V: 
936.8 A-V
:  0.009 ct:  0.002   5/  5 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 ^[[J^MA: 936.9 V: 936.9 
A-V: -0.00
8 ct:  0.001   7/  6 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 ^[[J^MA: 936.9 V: 936.9 A-V: 
0.010 ct:
0.002   8/  7 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 ^[[J^MA: 937.0 V: 937.0 A-V:  0.003 ct: 
  0.002
  9/  8 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 ^[[J^MA: 937.0 V: 937.2 A-V: -0.214 ct: -0.001 
  11/  9
??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 ^[[J^MA: 937.1 V: 937.3 A-V: -0.230 ct: -0.004  12/ 10 
??% ??%
  ??,?% 0 0 ^[[J^MA: 937.1 V: 937.3 A-V: -0.198 ct: -0.008  13/ 11 ??% 
??% ??,?%
0 0 ^[[J^MA: 937.2 V: 937.4 A-V: -0.195 ct: -0.011  14/ 12 ??% ??% ??,?% 
0 0 ^[[
J^MA: 937.2 V: 937.4 A-V: -0.212 ct: -0.014  15/ 13 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
^[[J^MA: 9
37.2 V: 937.4 A-V: -0.225 ct: -0.018  17/ 14 25%  4%  1.5% 0 0 ^[[J^M
demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching 
framerate.
A: 937.3 V: 937.5 A-V: -0.223 ct: -0.021  18/ 15 24%  4%  1.4% 0 0 
^[[J^MA: 937.
4 V: 937.6 A-V: -0.198 ct: -0.025  19/ 16 22%  4%  1.3% 0 0 ^[[J^Ma52: 
CRC check
  failed!
a52: error at resampling
a52: CRC check failed!
a52: error at resampling

and on and on and on until I CTRL-C

Exiting... (Quit)
apollo>

The sound is almost there, but not really. It stops, it jumps and 
sometimes squeals. The image is bad... scrambled squares; every once in 
a while a clean frame that quickly deteriorates...

The same drive/software combination plays well other DVDs (Star Wars I, 
II for example, as well as non encrypted DVDs).

Trying ripping works fine (vobcopy -m), in the sense that there are no 
errors (haven't tried it till the end, just long enough to reach 
VTS_07_?.VOB where the main title is), but... the resulting VOBS play 
just as bad.

trying to play it with XINE, when it gets to the title proper brings up 
a messagebox saying:
The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Your DVD is probably 
crypted. According to your country laws, you can or can't install/use 
libdvdcss to be able to read this disc, which you baught. (Media stream 
scrambled/encrypted)
and that's it...
but I do have libdvdcss installed as follows:

apollo>rpm -qi libdvdcss
Name        : libdvdcss                    Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.2.9                             Vendor: Freshrpms.net
Release     : 2.fc6                         Build Date: Mon 18 Sep 2006 
01:48:35 PM EDT
Install Date: Fri 23 Mar 2007 03:47:56 PM EDT      Build Host: 
devil.freshrpms.net
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: 
libdvdcss-1.2.9-2.fc6.src.rpm
Size        : 117196                           License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 18 Sep 2006 02:28:51 PM EDT, Key ID 
692ac459e42d547b
Packager    : Matthias Saou <matthias at rpmforge.net>
URL         : http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/
Summary     : Portable abstraction library for DVD decryption
Description :
This is a portable abstraction library for DVD decryption which is used by
the VideoLAN project, a full MPEG2 client/server solution.  You will need
to install this package in order to have encrypted DVD playback with the
VideoLAN client and the Xine navigation plugin.