Kaffeine And Amarok Dont Play After Hardy Upgrade
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 says
July 11, 2008 @ 9:21 am
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Jose says
July 27, 2008 @ 4:25 am
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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July 28, 2008 @ 12:31 am
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erich lorman says
August 16, 2008 @ 8:13 am
thank you !
this solved my long-time problem.
instead of coffee i’ll get you beer !
Kranny says
August 16, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
Nice to see that your Problem has been solved…W8ing for my beer:P
Bernd Klein says
August 18, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
Unfortunately, it hasn’t solved my problem, though my problem is exactly as described in the postings.
Any idea?
Douglas says
October 4, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
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 says
January 1, 2009 @ 5:46 am
xnlij4 Thanks for good post
Bernabeu R. Dario says
January 2, 2009 @ 12:00 am
Para Kaffeine en Ubuntu 8.04, set dvd.device to /dev/cdrom
Saludos.
Bernd Klein says
September 24, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
In the meantime with Ubuntu 9.04 it has changed my “new” problem.
But instead of changing /dev/dvd to /dev/dvd1.
I changed “dev/dvd” to “dev/cdrom1″
I hope this will help others as well.