Kaffeine And Amarok Dont Play After Hardy Upgrade
by kranny on 23/06/08 at 7:11 am
I’m was having a hard time when i first upgraded from 7.10 to Hardy. First problem: the Kaffeine refuses to play DVDs. Yes, I have already install the entire Medibuntu repository, the newest version of libdvdcss to play encrypted dvds, and the message from kaffeine is always the same:
This DVD Video is encrypted. To be able to watch it you will need to install libdvdcss by running from a console: sudo /usr/share/doc/kaffeine/install-css.sh. In some countries it is illegal to install the decryption software without permission from the video copyright holder.
Yes, I ran this “/usr/share/doc/kaffeine/install-css.sh” from root console, everything apparently OK. But kaffeine again repeated this dreadful message. I don’t know what to do.
Another thing: the Amarok simply does not play audio cds, and does not give any explanation, contrary to Kaffeine. It simply says it couldn’t read the cd.
As i was Explaining in my previous post that a Clean install is always wise than an upgrade,same holds her too
Solution:
In the Kaffeine menu go to Settings -> xine Engine Parameters -> media and
set dvd.device to /dev/dvd1 instead of /dev/dvd.Donno the reason but the dvd device in /dev is called dvd1 now in ubuntu 8.04.After that I could play the dvds…
The same trick applies for amarok too..Change the settings in the following way:
dev/cdrom —-> dev/cdrom1.
PS:Do Buy Me A Coffee If I’ve Saved your time
libdvdcss hardy
Jul 11th, 2008
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Jose
Jul 27th, 2008
Great!!!
Have been having the same situation with Kaffeine. I even decided to use VLC instead because of this issue. Did what you suggested, changed /dev/dvd for /dev/dvd1 and it worked!!!
Thank you.
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Jul 28th, 2008
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erich lorman
Aug 16th, 2008
thank you !
this solved my long-time problem.
instead of coffee i’ll get you beer !
Kranny
Aug 16th, 2008
Nice to see that your Problem has been solved…W8ing for my beer:P
Bernd Klein
Aug 18th, 2008
Unfortunately, it hasn’t solved my problem, though my problem is exactly as described in the postings.
Any idea?
Douglas
Oct 4th, 2008
The solution to this problem that is posted is only a patch and it will work but you must do it to all the software that looks for the dvd that way.
The best thing to do is leave all those packages the way they were at first and just remove (rename it to something else with the word backup is better) the file
called
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
Then reboot your computer.
All should now be working. It also will prevent any future problems
and will make ALL the software work.
johnny
Jan 1st, 2009
xnlij4 Thanks for good post
Bernabeu R. Dario
Jan 2nd, 2009
Para Kaffeine en Ubuntu 8.04, set dvd.device to /dev/cdrom
Saludos.