[solved] strange DVD problem

Hi,

I have a problem playing some DVDs (all from Ken Burns Civil-War-documentary; maybe others too, I have too much to test them all).

My System:

Raspberry 3, Libreelec 8.0.2, Kodi 17 (Krypton), external DVD-Player (LiteOn)

The problem:

When I push the ‘Disc’-Button, nothing happens (no DVD-menu, no movie), instead the GUI freezes. The only solution is to unplug the player, then the GUI is working again, except the ‘Disc’-Button, that is gone.

This is from kodi.log after unplugging the DVD-player:

16:01:56.806 T:1962167248 NOTICE: UDev: Changed / Added /var/media/CIVIL_WAR_DVD1

16:02:00.404 T:1962167248 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.

16:02:00.404 T:1962167248 WARNING: dll_ioctl - 21394 request failed with error [5] Input/output error

16:02:00.407 T:1962167248 WARNING: Previous line repeats 1 times.

16:02:00.407 T:1962167248 WARNING: dll_ioctl - 21394 request failed with error [22] Invalid argument

15:46:03.909 T:1962167248 WARNING: msvcrt.dll: dll_lseeki64 called, TODO: add 'int64 -> long' type ch

15:46:03.974 T:1962167248 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: /var/media/CIVIL_WAR_DVD1/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.

15:46:03.974 T:1962167248 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED

15:46:03.974 T:1874850720 NOTICE: Creating InputStream

15:46:03.976 T:1874850720 ERROR: Error on dvdnav_open

15:46:03.977 T:1874850720 ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [/var/media/CIVIL_WA

15:46:03.977 T:1874850720 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()

15:46:03.977 T:1962167248 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [/var/media/CIV

15:46:03.989 T:1962167248 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()

15:46:03.990 T:1962167248 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit

15:46:03.990 T:1962167248 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

15:46:03.990 T:1962167248 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()

15:46:03.990 T:1962167248 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit

15:46:03.990 T:1962167248 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

And I just found out that It is possible to start the DVD-menu from the file-manager.

These DVDs are playing well on all my other devices (Standalone DVD-player, XBOX, Linux-Notebook). I can plug-in the LiteOn external DVD-player into my notebook, and can play the movie with Kafeine or Mplayer.

I have other problems with DVDs too, some will only start after a reboot with the DVD in the player or after some attempts to start them; sometimes the movie stops somewhere in the middle, but I don’t now, if these problems are related. All DVDs are clean and working on my other systems.

Its very frustrating, everything else is working fine and I really like the whole thing very much.

and here it is:

ZNVE

I removed it, but without effect - here is the new kodi.log:

ZNVE

Any idea or hint, where the problem may be?

I have just rebuild the whole system on a second micro-SD from scratch, libreelec sources form this website, and added only the german-language-addOn - still the same problem(s).

Am I really the only one with DVD-problems - or the only one here, who is using DVDs? Its not only this special DVD-collection, I have problems all the time, DVDs not starting or only after reboot, and later stopping midway through playing. This is really very anoying.

And here it is:

CJLS

Region code I will find out, but I don't think that's the problem, because I tried the same external player with this DVD on my notebook (Suse-Linux), and everything works fine.

You where right, the region-code was not set, the DVD is now working! I will test more DVDs in the coming weeks, but so far, thank you very much for your help!

And, by the way (and instead of complaining...), I like the whole system very very much, great work!