No subject

player didn't work under xine, mplayer, and especially not under Windows 
PowerDVD, it appears you have a hardware problem with device hdc (I take it 
you have multiple hard drives (or partitions) and that hdc is your DVD-ROM, 
right? If this is a hard drive, then you have a failing hard drive. If this 
is your DVD-ROM player, then that's where you should look

I have been reading where DMA enabled on some DVD-ROMs can sometimes cause 
problems. Mandrake and Red Hat automatically turn DMA off in the 
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. I don't know about the others. You could make sure 
it's disabled by using hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc.

You might also want to investigate the IDE SMART code utilities to read the 
SMART statistics generated by your IDE drives.  For Linux, try this site: 
http://www.linux-ide.org/smart.html. Under Windows, you could try 
www.executivesoftware.com and try their SMART utility (I think you get a 
30-day free trial).

Lastly, there are some DVD-ROMs that will NOT play on RPC-1 (region-free in 
the BIOS)-coded DVDs. I had problems, too, but I don't remember who the 
studio was that's now checking to see if the player is completely code-free. 
This is NOT a problem with RPC-2 drives since they MUST have a region 
defined. What happened is that when this particular DVD started, it asked 
the player for the region and received no response so the moview wouldn't 
play. Newer code-free software fixes this problem (DVD-genie on Windows) and 
the libdvd* files from the Penguin Liberation Front (www.plf.org). I think 
the studio was Columbia Pictures but I'm just not sure and it only affects 
newer DVDs (within the last year or so).

Hope that gives you some things to look at.

Dave






----Original Message Follows----
From: gabor <gabor at realtime.sk>
Reply-To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
To: mplayer-users <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] dvd playback problem...
Date: 21 Nov 2002 11:43:42 +0100

[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 02:01, gabor wrote:
 > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
 > hi,
 >
 > i can watch dvd without problems with mplayer -dvd 1
 >
 > i have a toshiba1612 dvd drive, which was 'updated' to
 > region-free...
 >
 > but:
 >  i tried to use the -dvdnav feature, and it didn't work.
 > it's beta code so maybe it really doesn't work i said,
 > and went back to "mplayer -dvd 1"..
 >
 > but now mplayer -dvd 1 doesn't work.... he tells
 > playing dvd title 1,
 > and the hdd keeps working for some time then it stops..
 >
 > i can kill mplayer after some time...
 >
 > btw. i tried xine to watch dvds and did the same.... reported
 > opening dvd, the hdd worked for some time ( 1minute approx ),
 > and then no response... when i killed xine, mplayer refused
 > to play the dvd with the same error...
 >
 > btw2. on windows i got the same problem from powerdvd player...
 > hdd working , no response, had to shutdown windows to stop it..
 >
 > any ideas what's wrong?
 > and btw. what should i do to somehow 'reinitialize' the dvd drive,
 > so mplayer could play dvds once again... for now, i have to reboot
 > every time i do something like -dvdnav, or xine.

btw. i found out that even when using -dvdnav it works until he wants to
show the menu...

"** Searching for menu (0x3) entry PGC749  295/295  21%  8%  7.6% 9 0 0%
libdvdnav: Cell should restart here
"

and dmesg shows:
"hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: DMA disabled
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
"

thx,
gabor


 >
 > thx,
 > gabor
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