On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Andres Cimmarusti wrote:
> some DVD's fail to playback correctly. Totem gives a popup error saying
> it can't read from source and vlc simply freezes and after a few seconds
> it stops playback altogether.
> I have tested the DVD's on my friend's laptop running Windows Vista
> and playback was flawless. I also noticed that if I let some
> considerable time pass, the dvd played fine, well at least the parts
> that were previously freezing/stopping. This made me suspect my
> hardware, but some dvd's don't have problems.
I'm not sure this is really the right mailing list for this.
But in any case, next time it happens type dmesg in a console. If you are
having read errors you should see them in the log.
Also try copying the dvd. Type cat /dev/dvd > /dev/null (replace /dev/dvd
with whatever it's actually called) and watch it for errors.
It's very possible for you to have a lower quality DVD player that can not
read DVDs that are easy for your friend to read.
-Ariel
