Problems with Samsung TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552L - Page 2

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-11-06 19:43

For a movie dvd, you do not mount it.

Go to gnome-mplayer and open it there.

Or type in a terminal as user not root once the dvd is inserted

mplayer /dev/sr0

You might also need to install libdvdcss2 from the deb-mutimedia repo. Enable it, then install libdvdcss2 and then disable multimedia repo.

Eino · posted: 2012-11-07 13:49

I think I'm just going to change the drive.
I have a HP DVD writer 300i, That I will install later this week.
I'm giving up on the Samsung drive. hopefully this will solve the problem.

Eino · posted: 2012-11-07 15:44

Here is the results from mplayer / dev/sr0

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Steve@antiX1:~$ mplayer / dev/sr0
Failed to read / etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf.local: No such file or directory
Warning unknown option include at line 177
Warning unknown option stopxscreensaver at line 5
MPlayer 1.1-4.7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Can't open joystick device / dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing / dev/sr0.
File not found: '/dev/sr0'
Failed to open / dev/sr0.
Exiting... (End of file)

I just double checked to make sure that libdvdcss2 is installed.

rust collector · posted: 2012-11-07 19:10

Did you try without the space? like

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mplayer /dev/sr0

Eino · posted: 2012-11-08 14:39

Steve@antiX1:~$ mplayer /dev/sr0
Failed to read / etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf.local: No such file or directory
Warning unknown option include at line 177
Warning unknown option stopxscreensaver at line 5
MPlayer 1.1-4.7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /dev/sr0.
File not found: '/dev/sr0'
Failed to open /dev/sr0.

Exiting... (End of file)

Here is the results I needed to put a space between /, and etc to post the results.
I didn’t know what was stopping it before so I put a space between, almost everything.

rust collector · posted: 2012-11-08 15:43

umm can you start mplayer from the menu?
("start button", applications, sound&video, gnome-mplayer)

Or any other media player?, if you have more of them?

I don't have a dvd drive on my machine, so it is kinda hard to try to figure out...

Eino · 08 Nov 2012, 16:45 #22 2012-11-08 16:45

rust collector wrote:umm can you start mplayer from the menu?
("start button", applications, sound&video, gnome-mplayer)

Or any other media player?, if you have more of them?

I don't have a dvd drive on my machine, so it is kinda hard to try to figure out...

Mplayer is not the problem. I have used it to watch movies stored on the hard-drive
I also installed VLC player, and the same thing happens.
I'm going to pull that drive, and put in another drive.
This Samsung drive has been a problem even with Windows upgrades. When people upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 8, they needed to update the firmware for the drive. I tried to update the firmware for the drive using WINE, because Samsung did not have an update to support Linux. Well Wine failed to flash the drive.
Samsung has done nothing for Linux support of this drive.

Eino · posted: 2012-11-08 17:41

Problem fixed Just changed the drive. Installed HP DVD writer dvd300i.

rust collector · posted: 2012-11-08 17:46

Hmm, I found a samsung dvd drive... and yep, I have the same problem with it...
I will try some ideas, and see if I can get it working

rust collector · posted: 2012-11-08 18:03

Just got it working.
I had to enable the multimedia repo, and (re)install w32codecs, and libdvdcss2

Works fine now...

Eino · posted: 2012-11-08 18:15

Everything works now, I can read, and write DVD's and CD's now. __{{emoticon}}__
Music, Movies, Data anything I may need. __{{emoticon}}__
I did lose one thing lightscribe, But I never used the feature anyway. So it's not a big loss.

Eino · posted: 2012-11-08 18:19

rust collector wrote:Just got it working.
I had to enable the multimedia repo, and (re)install w32codecs, and libdvdcss2

Works fine now...

Did that It still didn't work for this drive.

rust collector · posted: 2012-11-08 18:24

Oh well... good thing you had a spare...

Eino · posted: 2012-11-08 18:28

Here is a screen shot of it playing a DVD.
I got a computer bone yard here. But I do have 5 working computers, and a lot of junk.

rust collector · posted: 2012-11-08 18:41

I just have to ask... what/where is your wallpaper?