Totem should give a dialog saying libdvdcss2 is required, instead of saying it can't read the disk.

[Marcos]

Binary package hint: totem

I just bought the movie 'I am Legend', I inserted the disc into my drive and totem opened automatically but I get a message wich states that it cannot read the disc. The terminal outputs the following message endlessly looping:

*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:1571 ***
*** for c_adt->cell_adr_table[i].vob_id > 0 ***

*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:1573 ***
*** for c_adt->cell_adr_table[i].cell_id > 0 ***

*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:1575 ***
*** for c_adt->cell_adr_table[i].start_sector < c_adt->cell_adr_table[i].last_sector ***

This movie plays fine with my home DVD player.

[QuentinHartman (qhartman)]

I have this same problem on Hardy 64-bit. I'm not sure if it is a libdvdread problem or a totem problem though. If vlc or mplayer use libdvdread and the de-css lib you can install for it, than it is likely a totem bug as mplayer and vlc on my machine play back DVD's fine, only totem and elisa fail.

[Momo_102 (momo-102)]

Did you install css? For amd64 there seams to be a bug in the install-css.sh

sudo gedit /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

You see following two lines:
#available="alpha hppa i386 ia64 powerpc s390 sparc"
available="i386"

Replace the with
available="alpha amd64 hppa i386 ia64 powerpc s390 sparc"
#available="i386"

Save the file and do a "sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh".
This worked for me.

I don't know if the bug is from Debian, Ubuntu or libdvdread3.

[Marcos (marcosrdz)]

Totem should be able to show a GUI to the end-user mentioning that libdvdcss is required for copyrighted dvds and be able to download the .deb by itself once the user allows it, an and-user just simply wont know what is going on

[Tom (nc4tc-tom)]

Totem played iHardy but when studio reinstalled, tot em will not play DVD it will list the segments.Error message says "an error occurred, could not read from resource. Attachment is the terminal data at failure

[John Karp (johnkarp)]

Marcos: So is it 'I Am Legend' in particular giving you problems, or can you not play *any* commercial DVDs?

If its this DVD in particular, its likely because it has ARccOS copy protection, which most DVDs don't have.

[Marcos (marcosrdz)]

This happens with all commercial DVDs. Unless I installed libdvdcss, there should be a GUI for this installation, an end-user just wont know how to do it. I know theres a script under /usr/share/doc/libdvdread/ to install libdvdcss, but an enduser just wont like opening the terminal just to watch his DVD.

[Sam Brightman (sambrightman)]

This bug just started for me on DVDs that were working yesterday - dmesg also has a whole load of I/O errors in addition to the ifo_read.c messages. mplayer also hangs/fails.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

The libdvdread part is fixed:

available="i386 amd64 powerpc lpia"
available_old="sparc"

Leaving the totem task open, as a GUI would be nice for this, even with the appropriate legal issues..

[Tom (tom6)]

If there are legal issues a disclaimer and a warning not to click on the 'Ok' button would be great :)

My Ubuntu 8.10 package manager had the libdvdread3 and dependancies all done nicely but i didn't know there was this issue until flicking through the forums on a cold rainy day here in England