[SOLVED] Commercial DVD Not Recognised

I have recently bought a commercial DVD that will not play on my PC. When I load it into the drive, it is just not "seen". Kaffeine reports a dvd read error, while smplayer, etc think there is no disc in the drive. All my other DVDs (with various region codes) play perfectly. This particular disc works fine on the set-top player on my TV.
I have checked that libdvdcss, etc are installed OK.
Does anyone have any ideas what's causing this, and suggest any fixes?
Last edited by myrlin (2012-03-15 11:25:54)

Yay for going legit huh? On a more serious note, do you have any possibility to test the dvd in other drives besides yours? It might just be that your drive is getting old or the dvd quality could be better and your drive has some difficulty reading it. Even pressed media can be of bad quality and some drives work miracles while others seem to quit at the first sign of trouble and I guess it also depends on the type of defect.
As for the possibility of the problem being caused by a copy protection, could also be the case, although I can't say much about that as I haven't looked at that for a long time, you could look here [1] as it may have something interesting. On the other hand, I'd say many standalone players use the same drives as available for computers so I'm not sure if someone would risk breaking things in that case.
[1] http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cd … ions.shtml

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