VLC can't play DVD

[Alfred Ts]

Hi ,

I try to play a dvd from VLC , the first bug i find is that when you type

dvd://

nothing happens.

I must type where i mount the dvd , when i type this , i get this error :

VLC media player 0.8.4-svn20040920 Janus
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from http://dvd.sf.net
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/hdc mounted on /media/cdrom0 for CSS authentication
libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/user/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00c00000. Regions: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Violación de segmento

[Alfred Ts]

Nobody knows why VLC don't play DVD?

[dakota34]

I had a similair problem - I'm running Ubuntu Breezy. I can suggest something that may direct vlc to the right place for your dvd drive, however I'm still having problems of another sort (see below).

Re your problem however, I believe you may need to manually set the dvd location to "/dev/dvd when you try to open the disk e.g. go to File -> Open Disc, then from the Disc tab type. Check the Media Resource Locator field - it probably contains "dvd//". Try changing this to "/dev/dvd". This prompted VLC to look in the right place for me. Hope this works.

Note: I'm still unable to watch DVDs via VLC. When I try, using the above, vlc starts trying to decrypt the dvd, then ends with an error message

"libdvdnav: Suspected RCE Region Protection!!!
Segmentation fault"