OS X 10.10.3 not opening DVDs

Everytime I try to watch a DVD, my iMac tries to read it then pops it back out without any helpful reason why!
Each time my old DVD player is able to read them without any problem. My latest DVD is Transcedendence so I am not trying to play `old DVDs.

Yosemite works fine with DVDs. Try another DVD, if the problem persists then reset the SMC and PRAM using the instructions below. Post back with your results.
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I also installed "codecs" with packer.
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MPlayer SVN-r37224 (C) 2000-2014 MPlayer Team
210 audio & 441 video codecs
Playing /dev/sr1.
File not found: '/dev/sr1'
Failed to open /dev/sr1.
Exiting... (End of file)
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Dies ist xine (X11 gui) - Ein freier Video-Player v0.99.8-[DEBUG].
(c) 2000-2010 The xine Team.
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videowin: going to assume we are using the first screen.
videowin: size of the first screen is 1024x768.
videowin: Xinerama fullscreen parameters: X_origin=0 Y_origin=0 Width=1024 Height=768
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Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau_vieux.so: Kann die Shared-Object-Datei nicht öffnen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX200] (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: CardExpert Technology Device 0001
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at d7ff0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau
these commands were asked me on freenode's #archlinux channel:
$ stat /dev/sr0
Datei: „/dev/sr0“
Größe: 0 Blöcke: 0 EA Block: 4096 blockorientierte Spezialdatei
Gerät: 5h/5d Inode: 6351 Verknüpfungen: 1 Gerätetyp: b,0
Zugriff: (0660/brw-rw----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 93/ optical)
Zugriff : 2014-07-12 22:52:20.959057344 +0200
Modifiziert: 2014-07-12 22:52:20.959057344 +0200
Geändert : 2014-07-12 22:52:20.959057344 +0200
Geburt : -
$ getfacl /dev/sr0
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# owner: root
# group: optical
user::rw-
user:christian:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---
$ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID -p Active
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I feel like some other driver is missing...
Last edited by leonixyz (2014-07-12 21:58:01)

dodo3773 wrote:Can you test a regular video file and it works fine in vlc?
ok, one step toward the solution:
I've scp-ed an .mp4 and an .mpg from my laptop, chmod 777 them and finally I can play them
dodo3773 wrote:
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dmesg | grep CD
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[ 1.227637] scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8320B 1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
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Name : vlc
Version : 2.1.5-1
Beschreibung : A multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player
Architektur : i686
URL : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Lizenzen : LGPL2.1 GPL2
Gruppen : Nichts
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ncurses: for ncurses interface support[Installiert]
libdvdcss: for decoding encrypted DVDs[Installiert]
lirc-utils: for lirc plugin[Installiert]
libavc1394: for devices using the 1394ta AV/C
libdc1394: for IEEE 1394 plugin
kdelibs: KDE Solid hardware integration
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flac: for Free Lossless Audio Codec plugin[Installiert]
portaudio: for portaudio support
twolame: for TwoLAME mpeg2 encoder plugin
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ttf-dejavu: for subtitle font
opus: for opus support[Installiert]
libssh2: for sftp support[Installiert]
lua-socket: for http interface
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Optional für: Nichts
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