[Bug 16722] Re: udev rule needed for libdvdread to trigger check/set of a region code (init brand new DVD drives)

[Ekimia]

Just encountered this probleme on 12.04 with a clean DVD drive ( direct
from the factory ) that has never been region-set.

Since this regionthing is directly linked to commercial crippled DVDs and drives region cannot be set more than 5 times. I guess this should be handled by the DVD player software only when the CSS key cracking fails. 
So as already said, this should be handled by the DVD player with a nice GUI where the user can select the zone after have understood that this could be done only X times

I'm then adding Totem as a project affectd by this bug

** Also affects: totem
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Summary changed:

- udev rule needed for libdvdread to  trigger check/set of a region code (init brand new DVD drives)
+ The user should be presented a GUI to set the region code of his brand new DVD drive when trying to read a CSS crippled DVD (When needed)

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Title:
  The user should be presented a GUI to set the region code of his brand
  new DVD drive when trying to read a CSS crippled DVD (When needed)

Status in Totem Movie Player:
  New
Status in “libdvdread” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Since I bought my laptop, I couldn't read dvd. I never searched for a solution -
  until today.

  This was a brand new laptop and it never booted anything else than ubuntu. The
  region code for the DVD drive was not set and it seems the drive refused to read
  DVD for this reason.

  After installing and using regionset (in universe, I think), it now works. There
  was no user friendly error but just this in the syslog:

  Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 1877480
  hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
  hdc: command error: error=0x50
  ide: failed opcode was 100
  end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 15019848

  FWIW, I'm using xine to read dvd, but I suspect it's libdvdread that should
  handle this.

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