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Title: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: Rukus on November 25, 2009, 03:38:21 am

Hello All,

I'm currently running 8.10B, and am testing the new DVD jukebox I just purchased. I' running into a problem when I try to play a disk from the changer, I keep getting the following error on the orbiter screen:

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I cannot play this media. Perhaps there is not a valid device in this entertainment area capable of playing it. Drive is not available

Has anyone else run into this problem?

Thanks,

Ernesto

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: totallymaxed on November 25, 2009, 11:52:04 pm

Quote from: underfunded on November 25, 2009, 03:38:21 am

Hello All,

I'm currently running 8.10B, and am testing the new DVD jukebox I just purchased. I' running into a problem when I try to play a disk from the changer, I keep getting the following error on the orbiter screen:

Quote

I cannot play this media. Perhaps there is not a valid device in this entertainment area capable of playing it. Drive is not available

Has anyone else run into this problem?

Thanks,

Ernesto

Hmmm... try a full regen.

Andrew

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: Rukus on November 26, 2009, 07:29:38 pm

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Hmmm... try a full regen.

Andrew

Tried regenerating a couple of times, but with no success. When I try to play a DVD, I can hear the changer loading and spinning the DVD as if it about display something. I don't think its the changer, only because it's brand new out the box. Once my Thanksgiving turkey coma subsides I'm going to take my diskless MD and slap a hard drive in it, and run LMCE 7.10 as a test. If it works, I'll know it's something that is missing from the beta, and not the hardware.

Thanks Andrew,

Ernesto

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: tkmedia on November 26, 2009, 07:39:07 pm

Try ripping a dvd or cd




HTH


Tim

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: Rukus on November 26, 2009, 08:27:45 pm

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Try ripping a dvd or cd




HTH


Tim

I tried that as well, but it started to rip, and with a couple of seconds, it said that the rip was complete.  When I went to the "Video" section I did not find the ripped media.

Thanks Tim,

Ernesto

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: Rukus on December 01, 2009, 07:45:13 pm

bump. still trying to resolve this thing.

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: Rukus on December 02, 2009, 05:36:04 pm

Update:

I pulled up the Kubuntu desktop and attempted to play the DVD using the "Dragon Player" software, and viola it worked. So now I know that it's not the changer itself.

Does anyone know where I should be looking for errors from LMCE related to a failure to run the DVD? I've been searching logs /var/log/ directory, but I can' t see anything related to my problem.

Thanks,

Ernesto

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: Rukus on December 04, 2009, 02:20:10 am

So I ran a tail -f  on the 70_Powerfile_C200.log and came up with the following. Not sure what the deal is, because as I said in the previous post I was able to run the DVD from the Desktop. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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01 12/03/09 20:14:23.661   JukeBox::Load_from_Slot_into_Drive -- bad slot 1 status 0 <0xb5bffb90>

Ernesto

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: tschak909 on December 04, 2009, 04:18:32 am

Have you tried deleting the device from the tree, and have the system re-detect the jukebox?

-Thom

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: Rukus on December 09, 2009, 01:45:39 am

Quote from: tschak909 on December 04, 2009, 04:18:32 am

Have you tried deleting the device from the tree, and have the system re-detect the jukebox?

-Thom

Tried that twice, but no luck. Have you had any problems with 810 and the Jukeboxes at all?

Ernesto

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: tschak909 on December 09, 2009, 02:11:14 am

all three of mine suffered mechanical failure within two months of each other.

-Thom

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: tkmedia on December 09, 2009, 03:40:32 am

I may have time over the next few days to do some testing with 0810 and the jukebox
I will see what I can do.





Tim

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: Rukus on December 09, 2009, 08:05:05 am

Sounds good Tim.

Ernesto

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: Rukus on December 16, 2009, 04:52:30 pm

Quote from: tkmedia on December 09, 2009, 03:40:32 am

I may have time over the next few days to do some testing with 0810 and the jukebox
I will see what I can do.





Tim

Tim,

Did you ever get a chance to test on your DVD Changer? I tried mine after the beta2 update, but still no luck.

Thanks,

Ernesto

Title: Re: Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B: Unable to play loaded DVD's
Post by: tkmedia on December 16, 2009, 05:16:24 pm

I did a couple quick test and did not have success, I have  not had a chance to look into it deeper.


I suggest opening a trac ticket and include your logs.
I will try to confirm and dig deeper as time permits.



Tim