Can't play VCD.....Seek Failed!

[darkmediator]

HI guys, help me out

I tried playing VCD/DVD but it says "seek failed" in mplayer. I changed to ffmpeg and win32codec family in both audio and video, but then also it displayed the same error.

Here's the output of dmesg

Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 5910
hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 23644


Using Xine also fails. In the log it says " couldn't find demux for /media/cdrom/mpegav/avseq01.dat".

I have all the plugins installed already. I have already done "yum -y install gstreamer* lib* ffmpeg* *mp3*" , have w32codecs installed and everything.

I have Fedora core 5, but I experienced this problem in Ubuntu Edgy, Fedora Core 3 and 4 too. I encounter this problem with any VCD or movie DVD I buy. They all play perfectly in windows XP, but not in Linux. Also all the cds and DVDs compiled by me or friends work fine, but again not these VCDs.

Also I cant copy from these VCDs, though I can copy from my own compiled ones with data and clips etc. With the commercial VCDs it says I/O error and is unable to copy then. Any ideas?

Thanx for any help in advance!

[setarip_old]

Hi!With the commercial VCDs it says I/O error and is unable to copy then. Any ideas?Perhaps these commercial discs contain copy protection...

[darkmediator]

OK. It seems I found the solution this night after years of googling. Though it is not searchable anywhere, the solution is an easy one.

I was trying to mount the vcd. It mounted all right, but then opening it with xine/mplayer gave the mentioned error. SO I thought why not let xine/mplayer play it by itself like nero/k3b mount em.

SO without mounting (normally/manually), I played them with xine/mplayer. And hoooray they searched for vcd themselves and played fine.

Thanx for all ur efforts. I'm a happy man again :)