I’m trying to diagnose why I can’t play a physical DVD on my system. The disc is loaded, it’s added to the main menu and the play button shows. However upon clicking play the Kodi process becomes non-responsive, the kill command doesn’t even work. The Kodi logs don’t show an error.
Odroid C2
CoreElec 9.0.3
What I’ve noticed so far is this is an encrypted disc. Checking the ~/.dvdcss folder shows no keys being created for the disc. There are keys in that folder for other discs, but nothing recent. If I put the same disc in my Ubuntu desktop I get keys in the ~/.dvdcss folder created.
Playing a DVD image (ISO) across SMB seems to fail as well, but it at least created keys.
I mentioned this also. Playing a dvd iso fails on my c2/9.0.3 as well as N2 nightly. I was getting a blank main menu screen that if I hit enter as soon as it displayed a highlight over the selection (but otherwise black) then it would at least play the movie. Lately though about 6 seconds after the screen blanks for the menu it crashes(segfaults) and returns the kodi menu. And the enter trick fails.
I would consider this a major regression.
Haven’t played a physical DVD or DVD .iso in a while, but I will hook up a player and do some tests as well when time permits.
Finally came around to testing this. CE versions are 9.0.3 / 9.2.0.
Hooked up a DVD player , got some random original DVD’s, inserted them.
I have not noticed any lockups or different behaviour.
A ‘Disc’ menu appears on main screen. When selected, the disc will start. Everything works as expected. Same goes for isos.
9.0.3 has 18.3. No issues in that version either.
I think it might have (had) something to do with a particular install (add-ons etc) or specific discs where issues were encountered…