[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
Can't the post-install script of libdvdread check if the dvd readers present have a region set, if that is required for libdvdread to work? -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
** Package changed: totem (Ubuntu) = libdvdread (Ubuntu) -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
this should not happen automatically as most dvd drives have a very limited number of changes. also it is not necessarily that you can guess based on the location information from the user (user might live in one country but have a collection of foreign disks, or may have 2 dvd drives and want them set to different regions). that means you need to ask the user if they want to set the region. more questions in the installer is generally a bad thing, especially as some users never will watch DVD films. so, surely this is a job for the media players to do rather than the installer. ** Also affects: totem (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
Could you please assign this also KDE-media-players (Kaffeine, Dragon Player) and VLC? I do not know how to do this. -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
The bug exists in intrepid too. I use Kubuntu. A few weeks ago I had to replace the existing DVD drive. I hadn't played a DVD yet, but everything else worked. So I thought the drive was broken again, when it failed to play several DVDs and I did not get any error message. Only when I fired up Windows I learned what the problem was. I was immediately asked to set the region code, when starting to play the DVD. After doing this, it worked with Kubuntu too. So it would be really great, if one would receive an error message or even better, if Kubuntu gave the possibility to set the region code. -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
Ran into this last night. Both Totem and mplayer gave totally meaningless errors. regionset fixed the problem but it took my friend a while to figure out the problem (after I spent much time failing to determine cause) since the errors reported by totem, mplayer, and those logged to syslog were not very helpful. -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
While there should be a better error message from libdvdread and the players should be able to give intelligent error messages, the installer should include 'regionset', check to see if there is a region set on any DVD hardware on install and offer to set the region if it has not been set. I ran into this issue while helping my friend putting Ubuntu 8.04 on his laptop (which originally came with an old SuSE Enterprise). Since he isn't all that technical, he never would have figured this out on his own, and it wasn't very obvious to me either. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: libdvdread = ubiquity -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
I encountered this problem with a Apple Mac Mini running 7.04 Feisty. I had never inserted a DVD under OSX, then wiped the entire disk and installed Ubuntu. The region code was never set on the drive, and any attempt to play a dvd caused the application to silently bail out with no errors. I believe the relevant error from VLC is: Error cracking CSS key for . If you try mounting the disk and issuing cp -ra you get errors like: cp: reading `/media/cdrom0/video_ts/video_ts.vob': Input/output error regionset is able to tell that there is no region set, thus I conclude there ought to be a hook that spots this and asks you to set it. -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
ahem ... any gnome media player would bail out with no errors running vlc from the command line showed the Error cracking CSS key ... error I mention above. -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 16722] Re: Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
there's a program regionset that is used to set it and it's in universe -- Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives https://launchpad.net/bugs/16722 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
