[MEncoder-users] playing encrypted DVD?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 17 January 2006 at 02:03, EC wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:43:54 +0100 (CET)
> SZABO Zsolt <szazs at mm.bme.hu> wrote:
> 
> > I have recently purchased a DVD which I can't play:
> > 
> > $ mplayer dvd://1
> > MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
> > Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> > Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
> > 
> > Playing dvd://1.
> > Reading disc structure, please wait...
> > There are 1 titles on this DVD.
> > There are 24 chapters in this DVD title.
> > There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
> > DVD successfully opened.
> > 
> > [..here it hangs..and after Ctrl-C:]
> > MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open
> > 
> > After trying the totem movie player it plays the intro then it gives up 
> > too, saying: "The source seems encrypted and can't be read
> > Are you trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?"
> > 
> > The mplayer was compiled with libmpdvdkit2. [./configure said:
> > Checking for DVD support (libdvdread) ... disabled by libmpdvdkit2
> > ]
> > 
> > What should I do? Have I left out something?
> 
> Check dmesg and syslog, often they catch messages if there is a
> kernel-level hardware problem reading the disc.  This may be the sign
> of some fancy new drm scheme, or just a bad disc.

Also check if you region is properly set. Some drives require that even
with libdvdcss.

R.

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