No commercial DVDs

[Bald Brick]

put a dvd to watch, try to watch it and when it errors out, open the terminal,run the following command and post its output

dmesg | tail -n 50

On one 64 bit setup:

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$ dmesg | tail -n 50
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sr0
On one run on a 32 bit system I also got the line "VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sr0", but after a reboot I didn't:

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$ dmesg | tail -n 50
DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Philips TDA10021 DVB-C)...
budget_av: ci interface initialised
rtl8180 0000:04:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
ieee80211 phy0: hwaddr 00064f69a5dd, RTL8185vD + rtl8225z2
NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00: GPU-25157e29-da0b-68f5-e3f3-d26ee95913e2
NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
NET: Registered protocol family 10
cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US
cfg80211:     (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
cfg80211:     (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm)
sky2 0000:02:00.0: eth0: enabling interface
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
sky2 0000:02:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
NF_TPROXY: Transparent proxy support initialized, version 4.1.0
NF_TPROXY: Copyright (c) 2006-2007 BalaBit IT Ltd.
ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink.
ipt_CLUSTERIP: ClusterIP Version 0.8 loaded successfully
xt_time: kernel timezone is +0300
u32 classifier
    Actions configured
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata1: EH complete
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata3: EH complete
EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
EXT4-fs (sda5): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
EXT4-fs (sdb4): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
EXT4-fs (sdb2): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
EXT4-fs (sdb5): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0


[Bald Brick]

Based on the description of the situation I'm guessing that the problem is not in the software, but in the DVD drive. Try looking at setting DVD region code.
Some licensed commercial DVD discs can arbitrarily change the DVD region setting without your knowledge.

Yes, but I am trying to watch the movies with VLC and VLC is supposed to ignore the region codes.

This is the first, what i hear. Which DVD make it?
I've never changed a region code in all my computer time.

I have, but that was ten years ago. Since then VLC has been able to handle all region cods without my changing the settings.

As to the DVD make(s) I have no idea. I've been trying to watch movies from several different companies. (With codes like 20903/ST/G1/RO and 8251592B-11/RO to mention two very different ones.) But they have all been Region 2 disks. If I can find a Region 1 disk I'll check i out.

[Bald Brick]

No problems here, KDE PCLOS, 32 bit. First thoughts, same as others, run-out-of-regions, dodgy hardware, 64 bit problem.

It can't be a 64 bit problem as I've got it on 32 bit too. But it could of course be a hardware problem, despite the fact that data DVDs work well. I'll try to move the DVD player from an older computer to this one.

...I can mount data DVDs in more ways than I care to list; I can't mount commercial DVDs with movies...

DVD's automount here, never really thought about it, how to mount an unmounted DVD. Gnome-mount seems to be the way. I never installed this, it is either there or came as a dependency, but this works here. (edit: as root, obviously)

 gnome-mount --device /dev/sr0 --mount-point DVD

shows up as /media/DVD

Gnome-mount works well with data DVDs, but when I insert a video DVD into the drive it just tells me that there's probably no disk in the drive.

This works in VLC although the mount point in VLC shows as /mnt/dvd

screenshot http://i.imgur.com/0jHYE.jpg

Just for the record, I have all the 'libdvd-css-nav-read' packages installed. udisk not installed.

I think you were right in suspecting the hardware. We'll see.