Kaffeine doesn't play DVD's or VCD's

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I could easily reproduce this one and attached a screenshot of the error message, which occurs, when I tried to play a dvd with kaffeine.

Steps to reproduce:

Put a dvd (I don`t knwo if its css protected or not) in your drive, on the dialog which asks you what to do, select "view dvd with kaffeine"

Kaffeine starts. Then a small window with a progress bar is shown. Title: "Kaffeine codec installer" which is very fast on 100%.
Then an new dialog/message box appears, showing me "Error: Codec package already installed" with an OK Button. When clicking on the Button, the Error message and the kaffeine codec installer window disappears. Kaffeine does not crash, but does not show the dvd either.

This you could see in the attached screenshot.

I had expected, that the co

Happend on an up-to-date Hardy Heron.
~$ kaffeine -v
Qt: 3.3.8b
KDE: 3.5.9
Kaffeine Player: 0.8.6

I obtain the same issue with different video files, i attached a video showing what happens when opening the video.
- Kaffeine starts to search for codecs (i installed all the codecs in gutsy - everything worked fine - but since i upgraded i can't see those videos)
- It downloads them
- It comes to know that they are already installed and prints an error
- Clicking Ok makes previous steps to repeat over and over again.
- Closing Kaffeine stops this loop

http://www.youtube.com/v/X15UqBw4xyk

Same here what Dareus reported, gutsy updated to hardy. The dvd playback has been ok for two weeks or so but suddenly it stopped, maybe because of some updates that have been installed, I've changed no settings.

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THis is what I get:

hk@rubert:~/Datat/projects/java/GenHTML$ kaffeine &
[1] 9387
rhk@rubert:~/Datat/projects/java/GenHTML$ libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.11.1 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/md0 mounted on / for CSS authentication
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/md0 with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/md0 for reading
libdvdread: Device /dev/md0 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.
libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/rhk/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.11.1 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdnav: DVD Title:
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number:
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): 8
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/rhk/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
install-codecs: Fatal IO error: client killed

Another report about the same: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=758279&highlight=kaffeine+codec

This might also have something to do with this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=727591&highlight=kaffeine+dvd

This bug is very annoying ; some weeks ago i was able to play DVDs by replacing the /dev/dvd option in xine engine parameters with /dev/scd0, but now this fix doesn't work anymore. BTW I only have problem with DVDs, other media files play fine.

Had this Problem tonight, xine-option (/dev/scd0 instead /dev/dvd) worked.

I am using the option "/media/cdrom0" to get my DVD's to play.

Funny enough - bumped into this now with Lucid.

rhk@rubert:/dev$ kaffeine --dvd
kaffeine(4826) DvbManager::loadDeviceManager: successfully loaded "/usr/lib/kde4/kaffeinedvb.so"
kaffeine(4826)/kdecore (services) KMimeTypeFactory::parseMagic: Now parsing "/usr/local/share/mime/magic"
kaffeine(4826)/kdecore (services) KMimeTypeFactory::parseMagic: Now parsing "/usr/share/mime/magic"
kaffeine(4826)/kdecore (services) KMimeTypeFactory::parseMagic: Now parsing "/home/rhk/.local/share/mime/magic"
rhk@rubert:/dev$ libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.17 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/md0 mounted on / for CSS authentication
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/md0 with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/md0 for reading
libdvdread: Device /dev/md0 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.
libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/rhk/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.17 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/rhk/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD

And Kaffeine gives a popup with:
read error from:
/dev/dvd

Worked a couple of days ago, and yes, I have the codecs installed.

Looks like my drive just won't like this dvd. It worked fine last week, another disk works fine now - but this one doesn't. It doesn't look any scratchy to me.. But I guess it's the disk :/