[MPlayer-cygwin] win32 mplayer can't play dvd's

[Sascha Sommer]

> On Friday 23 January 2004 23:12, devans at presscentre.net wrote:
> > So I have just discovered the win32 version of mplayer and would like to
> > test a DVD.
> >
> >
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/mplayer-mingw32-1.0pre3
> >.zip
> >
> > And installed the Latest Win32 codecpack.
> >
> >
> > I can play a DVD using the full path but not using the dvd://0 option.
> >
> Have you tried adding -dvd-device E: or something like that?
>
> I know that I once did a lot of work on fixing the awfully broken win32
code
> in libdvdread, but it got upgraded inside mplayer later, so it might be
all
> the stuff got lost and not fixed later...
> But on the other hand I haved tried the win32 port for ages.
>

It is -dvd-device e:/video_ts on windows 98. Not sure if -dvd-device E: will
work
on other windows versions.

Sascha