Am going around in circles trying to get to play vcds in ubuntu 9.04.
Have installed vlc , mplayer medibuntu etc but they don't seem to help. Also have installed the w32codecs, mjpegtools, etc but the story is the same.
Don't remember how this was done earlier for earlier versions.
Can anybody help please? Kussh
Hi,
--- On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Kussh Singhkussh.singh@gmail.com wrote: | Have installed vlc , mplayer medibuntu etc but they don't seem to help. | Also have installed the w32codecs, mjpegtools, etc but the story is the | same. --
You have only stated your difficulty. It would be more help if you actually wrote what you did, how you did it, and what were the errors/outputs you got.
SK
I installed the latest ubuntu 9.04, got the updates, then installed vlc etc via synaptic. VLC does not support svcd. went to ubuntu's website- downloaded the restricted formats as instructed but totem could not detect or play the VCD. Found a workaround via k3b-- ripped the VCD to a certain degree and could play the mpg files via vlc. Not the best solution but somewhat there. Kussh
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Shakthi Kannan shakthimaan@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
--- On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Kussh Singhkussh.singh@gmail.com wrote: | Have installed vlc , mplayer medibuntu etc but they don't seem to help. | Also have installed the w32codecs, mjpegtools, etc but the story is the | same. --
You have only stated your difficulty. It would be more help if you actually wrote what you did, how you did it, and what were the errors/outputs you got.
SK
-- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Kussh Singhkussh.singh@gmail.com wrote:
Am going around in circles trying to get to play vcds in ubuntu 9.04.
Have installed vlc , mplayer medibuntu etc but they don't seem to help. Also have installed the w32codecs, mjpegtools, etc but the story is the same.
Don't remember how this was done earlier for earlier versions.
Can anybody help please?
You might want to install `libdvdcss2'.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Kussh Singh kussh.singh@gmail.com wrote:
Am going around in circles trying to get to play vcds in ubuntu 9.04.
Have installed vlc , mplayer medibuntu etc but they don't seem to help. Also have installed the w32codecs, mjpegtools, etc but the story is the same.
You did not mention the error you get when you try to play VCDs. However assuming that you face the same problem that I had faced too, when you try to play a VCD, you come to the disc selection menu. After selecting VCD, at the bottom you will find a text mentioning your cd drive. It has an hdx part in it. change that hdx to your actual drive letter. Then play.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Rony Bill gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
You did not mention the error you get when you try to play VCDs. However assuming that you face the same problem that I had faced too, when you try to play a VCD, you come to the disc selection menu. After selecting VCD, at the bottom you will find a text mentioning your cd drive. It has an hdx part in it. change that hdx to your actual drive letter. Then play.
Sorry I forgot to mention, do all this in VLC player.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Rony Bill gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Rony Bill gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
You did not mention the error you get when you try to play VCDs. However assuming that you face the same problem that I had faced too, when you
try
to play a VCD, you come to the disc selection menu. After selecting VCD,
at
the bottom you will find a text mentioning your cd drive. It has an hdx
part
in it. change that hdx to your actual drive letter. Then play.
I tried changing
vcd:///dev/sr0 to vcd:///dev/scd0
but the situation remains the same. VLC player starts showing the various buttons play, pause, stop, fast forward, backward etc but nothing happens --horizontal scroll bar does not move --stays at starting position till i close down vlc player window
Both the hard drive and the dvd writer are sata types
messages show
vcd error: could not read block 57280 from disc
Thanks for the help.
Kussh
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Kussh Singh kussh.singh@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Rony Bill gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Rony Bill gnulinuxist@gmail.com
wrote:
You did not mention the error you get when you try to play VCDs.
However
assuming that you face the same problem that I had faced too, when you
try
to play a VCD, you come to the disc selection menu. After selecting
VCD,
at
the bottom you will find a text mentioning your cd drive. It has an hdx
part
in it. change that hdx to your actual drive letter. Then play.
I tried changing
vcd:///dev/sr0 to vcd:///dev/scd0
/dev/scd0? Is this a typo? It should be /dev/sdb, assuming sda is your HDD.
but the situation remains the same. VLC player starts showing the various buttons play, pause, stop, fast forward, backward etc but nothing happens --horizontal scroll bar does not move --stays at starting position till i close down vlc player window
Both the hard drive and the dvd writer are sata types
messages show
vcd error: could not read block 57280 from disc
is your vcd media good?
I tried changing
vcd:///dev/sr0 to vcd:///dev/scd0
/dev/scd0? Is this a typo? It should be /dev/sdb, assuming sda is your HDD.
there are 4 sata slots on the motherboard. File system shows sda1,2,3,4. i tried using /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4 but they don't work -it was presumed sda1 represents the hard drive
is your vcd media good?
that i can't say but k3b was able to extract some of the tracks and convert them into mpeg files. some mpeg files ripped by k3b were of zero size and i presume those tracks may be unreadable etc (ie the vcd could be bad -hence the error)
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Kussh Singh wrote:
I tried changing
vcd:///dev/sr0 to vcd:///dev/scd0
/dev/scd0? Is this a typo? It should be /dev/sdb, assuming sda is your HDD.
there are 4 sata slots on the motherboard. File system shows sda1,2,3,4. i tried using /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4 but they don't work -it was presumed sda1 represents the hard drive
sda is sata0 1 is the first partition on stat0 2 is the 2nd etc. sdb is sata1 sdc is sata2 sdd is sata3
your cdrom would be on /dev/hda so vlc vcd:///dev/hda should work
is your vcd media good?
that i can't say but k3b was able to extract some of the tracks and convert them into mpeg files. some mpeg files ripped by k3b were of zero size and i presume those tracks may be unreadable etc (ie the vcd could be bad -hence the error)
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:21 AM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
sda is sata0 1 is the first partition on stat0 2 is the 2nd etc. sdb is sata1 sdc is sata2 sdd is sata3
your cdrom would be on /dev/hda so vlc vcd:///dev/hda should work
I tried using vcd:///dev/hda but it does not work. Infact when i went to
the /dev directory there was no sdb, sdc, sdd or hda device file in it. There is a subfolder called disk and it has 3 other folders (by path, by uuid, by id)
-- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
i was able to play other VCDs via VLC using /dev/sr0 on my machine. The earlier VCD may have been defective or was a special format (svcd etc).
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND SUGGESTIONS. Sorry for all the trouble
kussh
Kussh Singh wrote:
i was able to play other VCDs via VLC using /dev/sr0 on my machine. The earlier VCD may have been defective or was a special format (svcd etc).
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND SUGGESTIONS. Sorry for all the trouble
kussh
sr0? A question to the list. Are the new kernels following a new naming system for SATA drives?
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Rony wrote:
Kussh Singh wrote:
i was able to play other VCDs via VLC using /dev/sr0 on my machine. The earlier VCD may have been defective or was a special format (svcd etc).
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND SUGGESTIONS. Sorry for all the trouble
kussh
sr0? A question to the list. Are the new kernels following a new naming system for SATA drives?
Afaik no.
On 6/28/09, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Rony wrote:
Kussh Singh wrote:
i was able to play other VCDs via VLC using /dev/sr0 on my machine. The earlier VCD may have been defective or was a special format (svcd etc).
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND SUGGESTIONS. Sorry for all the trouble
kussh
sr0? A question to the list. Are the new kernels following a new naming system for SATA drives?
Afaik no.
To uncover the mystery, I booted a live cd of Kubuntu 9.04 and found that Kubuntu is giving the name sr0 to the cd drive. 'dmesg' and 'mount' both confirm this. I wonder why Ubuntu does it.
Kussh Singh wrote:
I tried changing
vcd:///dev/sr0 to vcd:///dev/scd0
/dev/scd0? Is this a typo? It should be /dev/sdb, assuming sda is your HDD.
there are 4 sata slots on the motherboard. File system shows sda1,2,3,4. i tried using /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4 but they don't work -it was presumed sda1 represents the hard drive
SATA drives per slot are named as sda, sdb, sdc and sdd. If any of the drives has partitions then _those_ partitions are numbered as 1,2,3 etc. Therefore a SATA HDD on slot sda will have partitions sda1, sda2, sda3 etc. However a CD/DVD Drive does not have partitions and is named only as sda, sdb, sdc sdd etc.
You mention above that your HDD is sda, therefore the next free name for your SATA CD ROM will be sdb. As an exercise run the command 'dmesg' in your terminal and look for entries for your HDD and CD drive.
Rony wrote:
SATA drives per slot are named as sda, sdb, sdc and sdd. If any of the drives has partitions then _those_ partitions are numbered as 1,2,3 etc. Therefore a SATA HDD on slot sda will have partitions sda1, sda2, sda3 etc. However a CD/DVD Drive does not have partitions and is named only as sda, sdb, sdc sdd etc.
You mention above that your HDD is sda, therefore the next free name for your SATA CD ROM will be sdb. As an exercise run the command 'dmesg' in your terminal and look for entries for your HDD and CD drive.
I am afraid not. The output from my fedora 11 is attached below. You will see that dvd drives are named sr0 and sr1. Of course if you say that the naming convention are different for cddrives then I can not say anything.
Thanks and regards.
sadhu
[root@urmi dev]# ls -l sr* brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2009-06-28 21:18 sr0 brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 2009-06-28 21:18 sr1 [root@urmi dev]# ls -l cd* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrom -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrom1 -> sr1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrw -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrw1 -> sr1 [root@urmi dev]# ls -l sd* brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-06-28 21:18 sda brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-06-28 21:18 sda1 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-06-28 21:18 sda2 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-06-28 21:18 sda3 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 4 2009-06-28 21:18 sda4 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb1 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 18 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb2 [root@urmi dev]#
On 6/28/09, Nachiketa Sadhu sadhu@iitb.ac.in wrote:
Rony wrote:
SATA drives per slot are named as sda, sdb, sdc and sdd. If any of the drives has partitions then _those_ partitions are numbered as 1,2,3 etc. Therefore a SATA HDD on slot sda will have partitions sda1, sda2, sda3 etc. However a CD/DVD Drive does not have partitions and is named only as sda, sdb, sdc sdd etc.
You mention above that your HDD is sda, therefore the next free name for your SATA CD ROM will be sdb. As an exercise run the command 'dmesg' in your terminal and look for entries for your HDD and CD drive.
I am afraid not. The output from my fedora 11 is attached below. You will see that dvd drives are named sr0 and sr1. Of course if you say that the naming convention are different for cddrives then I can not say anything.
Thanks and regards.
sadhu
[root@urmi dev]# ls -l sr* brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2009-06-28 21:18 sr0 brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 2009-06-28 21:18 sr1 [root@urmi dev]# ls -l cd* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrom -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrom1 -> sr1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrw -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrw1 -> sr1 [root@urmi dev]# ls -l sd* brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-06-28 21:18 sda brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-06-28 21:18 sda1 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-06-28 21:18 sda2 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-06-28 21:18 sda3 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 4 2009-06-28 21:18 sda4 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb1 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 18 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb2 [root@urmi dev]#
Hmm! So this appears to be the new way of naming CD drives by other distros too.
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Rony Bill wrote:
On 6/28/09, Nachiketa Sadhu sadhu@iitb.ac.in wrote:
Rony wrote:
SATA drives per slot are named as sda, sdb, sdc and sdd. If any of the drives has partitions then _those_ partitions are numbered as 1,2,3 etc. Therefore a SATA HDD on slot sda will have partitions sda1, sda2, sda3 etc. However a CD/DVD Drive does not have partitions and is named only as sda, sdb, sdc sdd etc.
You mention above that your HDD is sda, therefore the next free name for your SATA CD ROM will be sdb. As an exercise run the command 'dmesg' in your terminal and look for entries for your HDD and CD drive.
I am afraid not. The output from my fedora 11 is attached below. You will see that dvd drives are named sr0 and sr1. Of course if you say that the naming convention are different for cddrives then I can not say anything.
Thanks and regards.
sadhu
[root@urmi dev]# ls -l sr* brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2009-06-28 21:18 sr0 brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 2009-06-28 21:18 sr1 [root@urmi dev]# ls -l cd* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrom -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrom1 -> sr1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrw -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrw1 -> sr1 [root@urmi dev]# ls -l sd* brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-06-28 21:18 sda brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-06-28 21:18 sda1 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-06-28 21:18 sda2 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-06-28 21:18 sda3 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 4 2009-06-28 21:18 sda4 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb1 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 18 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb2 [root@urmi dev]#
Hmm! So this appears to be the new way of naming CD drives by other distros too.
actually it was the old way of handling scsi drives and cdrw drives, and was discarded at least 2 years ago. My sarge (and earlier) setupsused sr0.
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