VLC not working in Ubuntu 9.04

[Linux_Boy]

I'm no kidding , I have tried in different machines , may be more than 10 , still vlc player not working specific operation in those , the main thing is it cant work VCD's .. mainly .dat files .. Is there any solution for this

[devils casper]

Have you tried same .dat files in machines having other OSes? Does Windows OS play those file?

[Linux_Boy]

Have you tried same .dat files in machines having other OSes? Does Windows OS play those file?

Thats why it hurts , coz its playing in Win Xp , which I dont like ... I reinstalled still not working , my earlier version did , but this 9.04 is been reporting problem since its installation , I havent yet checked the 9.10 version

[devils casper]

Install "ubuntu-restricted-extras" package in Ubuntu 9.04.

[D-cat]

That's odd. Even if it can't figure out the menu/chapter structure, the dat files are just standard mpeg-1 streams, any video player should be able to open and play them. Have you tried using MPlayer or Xine to root out if this really is just a VLC problem? On top of Casper's suggestion, you can also try adding the codecs available from Medibuntu. Good luck.

[Linux_Boy]

Yes Sir's , I'll try all these options .. Definitely will reply .. Thanks

[Linux_Boy]

Good luck.

oooppsss .. Not working , what to do with this Ubuntu , for the first time ,since 4 years I've been using this platform , didnt made any problem , for the first time I've been poked with this problem .

NB: gxine , mplayer all making the same problem , its not even mounting , my other CD which contains Datas like OS , mounts well .. vlc forum too couldnt able to figure it out

[D-cat]

its not even mounting

Well, that might explain some of it. About 30 seconds or so after you insert the disc (and you verify mounting fails), what is the output of

dmesg | tail

?

[Linux_Boy]

Well, that might explain some of it. About 30 seconds or so after you insert the disc (and you verify mounting fails), what is the output of

dmesg | tail

?

dmesg | tail

[ 452.180896] ata2: EH complete
[ 513.000272] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 513.000291] ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:08/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 2048 in
[ 513.000294] cdb be 00 00 00 05 ae 00 00 01 10 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 513.000296] res 40/00:02:00:1c:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 513.000303] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 513.000346] ata2: soft resetting link
[ 513.180596] ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2
[ 513.180930] ata2: EH complete
[ 1253.536997] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec

[D-cat]

Well, it's not crystal clear but there definitely seems to be some issue with that CD drive (or it simply doesn't like that disc).

I suppose you can try making a copy of that VCD on a machine that reads it okay... burn as slow as you can. See if the new disc works any better.