[solved] strange DVD problem

rsjahn · June 17, 2017 at 3:05 PM

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.

**Klojum** · June 17, 2017 at 5:42 PM Official Post

Please provide the kodi.log , so we get the whole log file, and not just the part(s) that you think are interesting.

rsjahn · June 17, 2017 at 5:48 PM

and here it is:

ZNVE

**Klojum** · June 17, 2017 at 6:35 PM Official Post

Code

Using repository repository.dk-xbmc-repaddon

Could you fully remove addons from this repository, just to make sure it does not interfere in any way with the basic functionality of Kodi?

rsjahn · June 17, 2017 at 6:42 PM

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

ZNVE

rsjahn · June 20, 2017 at 8:58 AM

Any idea or hint, where the problem may be?

rsjahn · June 21, 2017 at 8:39 AM

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.

**DaVu** · June 23, 2017 at 7:10 AM Official Post

Unfortunately the logs you provided aren´t debug logs and therefore mostly useless.

Please enable debug logging and reboot LibreELEC or restart Kodi. Then, after the boot/restart, reproduce your issue as fast as you can and get us a new log.

The only error I see is:

Quote

18:46:51.747 T:1506153376 ERROR: Error on dvdnav_open

so I guess, if debugging is enabled, we might be able to tell more.

As a first guess....have you checked if the region of your DVD drive is set correctly? If you are not sure, please connect it to some desktop PC and try to set the region for it properly.

rsjahn · June 23, 2017 at 10:36 AM

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.

rsjahn · June 23, 2017 at 4:26 PM

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!

**DaVu** · June 26, 2017 at 11:12 AM Official Post

Quote from rsjahn

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!

YW

Yes, please report and probably ping with @<username> so I´m able to keep track of this thread

[solved] strange DVD problem

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