DVD player won't play

[RAB302]

I just ran command inxi di and get:

Code:

raymond@RAB-P-6860FX:~$ inxi -d
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (15.5% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Hitachi_HTS72208 size: 80.0GB
           Optical: /dev/sr0 model: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7563A
           dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
           Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes
           audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram
raymond@RAB-P-6860FX:~$

So my guess it sees the DVD player but VLC player still wont play I get and error unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/sr0'

Any Suggestions please? Thanks.

[gold_finger]

If this is not what you already tried, do the following:

• Load DVD in tray
  
• Open VLC
  
• Along top of VLC window go to Media -> Open Disk -> Disk device -> choose "/dev/sr0" from drop-down box.  (See where my mouse pointer is in the screenshot below.)
  
• Then hit "Play" button near bottom of window.
  

[RAB302]

Already tried it at the beginning and everyone under the Disc Device that was listed, nothing worked. Went to the Help menu and went throu it, but still cant find anything that would help. The DVD play is good and was working when Vista was loaded. Still trying to figure it out, but no luck yet  :'(

[Valtam]

Opening a terminal, does the following work:

Code:

vlc dvd:///dev/dvd

or:

Code:

vlc dvd:///dev/sr0

[supergamer]

Please try loading something up in the dvd player. See if it mounts the disk by opening up thunar. You should see it on the left panel. If you do not try opening up settings manager then desktop then icons and see if you have it checked to show. We need to see if it is actually mounting or not. If all those things are good try opening up disks from the menu then clicking on the gear wheel and edit mount options. Uncheck the automount option then check mount on startup, hit ok then reboot and see if that now mounts things and is seen with vlc. There is a bug with vlc, 4.10 hwe kernel where it plays sound but no video and you will have to change the video output from auto to opengl glx video output (xcb).

[RAB302]

I dont see any thing showing thunar on the left panel when inserting in cd in the player. Then went to settings manager, desktop, and icons and dont see anything there resembling to thunar, but everything else there is checked off. I also went to the VLC and change video output to opengl glx video ouput (xcb) and rebooted, still nothing happens.


Also tried from a previous suggestion went to the terminal window and input selected codes and got this:


raymond@RAB-P-6860FX:~$ vlc dvd:///dev/dvd
VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80)
[0000000001c49148] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 5.0.3
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdnav: vm: failed to open/read the DVD
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
[00007fcee8000e98] dvdread demux error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/dvd
[00007fcf04000ab8] core input error: open of `dvd:///dev/dvd' failed
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
raymond@RAB-P-6860FX:~$


....so, still trying to figure it out.

[gold_finger]

supergamer brought up a great point -- make sure the DVD is mounted first.  VLC won't play it if it isn't mounted first.


:-[ Pretty embarrassing that I totally forgot to mention that because I always have auto-mounting of devices disabled on my systems and always have to manually mount DVDs myself before playing them in VLC.


Just in case this is the problem, go to Menu -> Settings -> Settings Manager -> Removable Drives and Media -> Storage tab -> and check box next to "Mount removable media when inserted".  Then insert DVD, wait about 15 seconds for system to mount it, open VLC and follow prior instructions to play it.  (Hopefully that is the problem and it is now solved.)

[Valtam]

I dont see any thing showing thunar on the left panel when inserting in cd in the player. Then went to settings manager, desktop, and icons and dont see anything there resembling to thunar, but everything else there is checked off. I also went to the VLC and change video output to opengl glx video ouput (xcb) and rebooted, still nothing happens.


Also tried from a previous suggestion went to the terminal window and input selected codes and got this:


raymond@RAB-P-6860FX:~$ vlc dvd:///dev/dvd
VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80)
[0000000001c49148] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 5.0.3
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdnav: vm: failed to open/read the DVD
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
[00007fcee8000e98] dvdread demux error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/dvd
[00007fcf04000ab8] core input error: open of `dvd:///dev/dvd' failed
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
raymond@RAB-P-6860FX:~$


....so, still trying to figure it out.

Did you try the sr0 command I had there as well? I only see output for the dvd command.

[RAB302]

Yes, i did try the sr0, still got the same thing.

I already done that at the begging when I started this, where I went to Menu -> Settings -> Settings Manager -> Removable Drives and Media -> Storage tab ->and check box next to Mount removable media when inserted, ...but it was already checked when i open it. Then insert DVD, and waited for a few seconds for system to mount it and then open VLC, but still nothing happens, lol.

But the dvd does come on and running and the indicator lights up, but still nothing.

Might have to go back and do a complete vista install and then do a dual boot with Linux lite and go from there tomorrow and try that; because somewhere when I google it, some else had a similar problem and went back and done a dual boot, something to do with the grub code or something. But I really dont wont to go back and do a vista reinstall it takes forever, lol.

[supergamer]

Did you try the disks program from the menu? Try that please as that is what I had to do with my stuff. I turned off the automount and selected mount when starting and it adjusts the fstab file so that it gets mounted at boot time.