Problems playing DVDs

[jw2k_fr]

System specs:

iMac 20" Early 2008
OSX 10.9.1
2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
Radeon HD 2400 XT 128Mb
2 x 1Gb Ram
MatShita DVD-R UJ-875

DVD Info confirms I have made my DVD-R region free

Vendor: MATSHITA
Model: DVD-R UJ-875
Firmware: DB09
Status: RPC-1 (region free)

I can now successfully play Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs using OSX DVD player app.

However, when I try to use VLC 2.1.2, after inserting the disc, the discname comes up in the playlist with an orange triangle to the left. This is the same for both region 1 and region 2 discs.

Any suggestions as to what is going wrong and how to go about fixing it?

Thx in advance!

[MtnMan]

I have had this issue with my MacBook 13" OS X 10.6.8 and VLC 2.1.2 (64bit), and I just found the solution.
You need a 64 bit version of libdvdcss aka libdvdcss.2.dylib

Download the libdvdcss.pkg and install it. Or manually install (that BTW I was unable to figure out how with the limited instructions ). The .pkg file though did the installation just fine and at reboot of VLC, there was my DVD, playing just fine!

The link I found my info was: http://gskluzacek.tumblr.com/post/44981 ... n-mac-os-x
But there may be another source out there... this one just worked for me, and I looked no further.

MtnMan

[jw2k_fr]

You need a 64 bit version of libdvdcss aka libdvdcss.2.dylib

Tried it - no change. Downloaded the .pkg and installed it (no change), then copied over the dylib file (no change)

There may be something weird going on though. Having rebooted, DVDInfo still reports the drive as RPC-1, but RegionX says "Unknown RPC state".

Apple DVD player is now asking me to set the region for the drive when I insert and R2 disc.

Any suggestions for what else I should try?

Thanks

[jw2k_fr]

Running VLC -v shows this:

administorsimac:~ Administrator$ /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -v
VLC media player 2.1.2 Rincewind (revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876)
[0x10020cf50] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.2.0
libdvdnav: DVD Title: HGG0EUW1
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 32f01ef8
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/Users/Administrator/.dvdnav/HGG0EUW1.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f50000. Regions: 2 4

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0000015f
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
... (continues)
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_14_1.VOB at 0x002cf0a8
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 14 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: No VTS_TMAPT available - skipping.
libdvdread: No VTS_TMAPT available - skipping.
libdvdread: No VTS_TMAPT available - skipping.
libdvdread: No VTS_TMAPT available - skipping.
[0x1003bba80] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[0x1003bba80] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[0x104995da0] dvdnav demux warning: unknown codec for id=0xff
[0x104995da0] dvdnav demux warning: cannot get next block (Error reading from DVD.)
[0x1003bba80] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[0x1003bba80] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[0x104995da0] dvdnav demux warning: unknown codec for id=0xff
[0x104995da0] dvdnav demux warning: cannot get next block (Error reading from DVD.)

Is this of any use?

[jw2k_fr]

No suggestions?

I have confirmed libdvdcss installed successfully by running file /usr/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib which returns:

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/usr/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures /usr/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib (for architecture i386): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386 /usr/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

What DVD is that?