[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux and DVDs

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Wed Jul 4 02:04:51 CDT 2001


The SeekComplete Error is what I'm getting... but the libcss stuff
seems to be working... the DVD plays... just not very well and
eventually it all SEGVs.  I'm using Xine-css.

The decoding seems to be working fine.

Stephen Klein wrote:
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Are you getting something like this?
> 
> hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: packet command error: error=0x54
> ATAPI device hdd:
>   Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
>   Copy protection key exchange failure - Key not present -- (asc=0x6f,
> ascq=0x01)
>   The failed "Report Key" packet command was:
>   "a4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 02 00 "
> (repeat)
> 
> If so, it's basically the drive complaining that it wasn't given the
> proper "CSS key" to access the DVD data.  Most of the older DVD drives
> didn't care, but if I remember right, the mpaa started twisting DVD
> drive manufacturers to require the key be present in the drive in order
> to access the DVD, supposedly to make DVD harder to "COPY". <cough>
> Xine seems to be able to work around this problem (proper plugin
> required).
> 
> Mine gripes about it and gives me all kinds of errors like the one
> above, but it has never caused me any troubles.
> 
> Xine works great, given where it is in it's development.  It's actually
> useable.
> 
> I never was able to get OMS to work.  I think they tried to make things
> too overly complicated rather than make it work, and then work on the
> extras.
> 
> There are a couple of others out there, but I haven't tried them yet.
> They're still early yet.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> Chris Cox wrote:
> >
> > I've been working with a DVD device and I get a bunch
> > SeekComplete errors when accessing it as a UDF
> > (i.e. I'm taking about a video DVD... data as
> > ISO9660 works fine).  It's pretty badly broken.
> > I've tried 2.2.19 and 2.4.6pre7 (and variations
> > up and down the version tree).  Looks like it
> > just doesn't work for my device... seems others
> > have had success with their IDE DVDs.  I'm just
> > seeing if anyone else has experienced these
> > problems.
> >
> > (we can have a pity party together or something)
> >
> > Chris
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