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Neil Waldhauer:
I've tried VLC and SMPlayer, but most DVDs will not play. Is it some kind of encoding problem?

It almost looks like it is scanning from track to track, but no output.

An old DVD from when DVD were a new thing plays just fine on either program.

Dave Yeo:
How long did you wait for the encryption to get broken? Here it takes a surprising long time. You might also look at any output, Tools-->Messages for VLC, I forget with smplayer but should be an option to capture the output of MPlayer (libdvdcss to be exact).

Neil Waldhauer:
Each time I try to play, I get the following message four times.

main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called

Dave Yeo:
According to Google, you're not alone. Unluckily doesn't seem to be a simple solution.
Is a subdirectory created under %HOME%\.dvdcss with the name of the DVD you're trying to play?
Perhaps try to launch vlc like
vlc -vvv -logfile=vlc.log -logmode=text
and see if anything interesting is logged when trying to play a dvd.

Greggory Shaw:

--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on December 04, 2014, 02:39:46 am ---I've tried VLC and SMPlayer, but most DVDs will not play. Is it some kind of encoding problem?

It almost looks like it is scanning from track to track, but no output.

An old DVD from when DVD were a new thing plays just fine on either program.

--- End quote ---

Try my MPlayer package and libdvdcss-1.3.0.zip

I think only one didn't work.

http://www.os2notes.x10host.com/os2mplayer.html


Greggory

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