problem playing video DVD

[Tim]

On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 22:29 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
> Rented a DVD movie (the 3rd in the series Atlas Shrugged).
> It would not play with any media player (such as smplayer, vlc,
> Dragon Player, xine, totem, ... etc)
>  
> No errors in /var/log/messages.

You haven't said if you've been able to play other discs with the
software.

> I told the vendor, and they stuck it into a machine the "tests" it for
> playability. It took 5 seconds and it declared it playable :) :)
> Whatever ....

Yeah, hardly an exhaustive tests.  Some discs won't work in some
standard DVD players, never mind computers.  So you'd really need to try
more than one player before you declare that there's nothing wrong with
a disc.

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