[ale] Toshiba External DVD drive issue

[Omar Chanouha]

You can enable the repositories by default, which will install
libdvdread, however you must still run a script to enable the css.

for future reference, the script can be found here:

/usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

-O

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:35 AM, aaron<aaron at pd.org> wrote:
> On 2009, Jul, 22, , at 11:23 PM, Omar Chanouha wrote:
>> I just a Toshiba pa3761u external dvd burner. It works fine under
>> Vista, and the box claims linux supp. In ubuntu it is recognized and I
>> can get files off of it, but when I try to play dvds with mplayer i
>> get these a bunch of errors from mplayer like this:
>>
>> a52: error at resampling
>> a52: CRC check failed!  1.445 ct:  0.076  31/ 31 56% 35% 1588.3% 27 0
>> a52: CRC check failed!
>>
>> dmesg is giving me a bunch like this:
>>
>> [ 1695.433844] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 109184
>> [ 1695.501333] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 109208
>> [ 1695.570076] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 109208
>>
>> Could this be an encryption issue?
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> Commercial release DVD?  Yes. Absolutely.
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> You will need to find a way to decode the defective by design
> DVD restriction mechanism.
>
> On Ubuntu, I've heard this could be as easy as using the Add
> and Update Software utility to search for ubuntu-restricted-extras
> and install it.
>
> peace
> aaron
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