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

[Diego Biurrun]

devans at presscentre.net writes:
 > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:38:34PM -0300, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > > devans at presscentre.net writes:
 > >  > The -dvd-device D: trick does'nt work on my XP system, although that would be the
 > >  > ideal thing, to just put the DVD into the drive and to say "Play this DVD".
 > >  > I wonder if i'm missing something, is that possible ?
 > > 
 > > Have you tried (as seen in the docs):
 > > 
 > > -dvd-device /d/
 > > -dvd-device '\\.\d:'
 >  
 > Both of which don't work, i'm running XP.

Hmm, it used to work for me on W2K.

 > >  > I then install the codecs into c:\program files\mplayer\
 > > 
 > > I believe it should be c:\program files\mplayer\codecs.
 >  
 > When "Latest Win32 codecpack" is extracted, a directory is created
 > called win32codecs, so your saying that this should be renamed
 > to codecs. ok no problem, but why not fix this within the .zip file
 > is if it's a problem.  I don't get it.

What zip file are you using?  Sascha Sommer's packages contain a
"codecs" subdirectory.

 > >  > What should go in codecs.conf if I use the latest win32 codec pack ?
 > > 
 > > Don't touch codecs.conf.
 >  
 > So the official advice is to ignore this warning, I did'nt know that.

Which one?  The one where it tries to read system and user
codecs.conf?  Yes, ignore them, unless you want to tinker with the
innards of MPlayer.

 > c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring
 > Cannot load font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

You can also use bitmap fonts.  Download them from our homepage and
put them in your home directory.  Dunno where MinGW expects them right
now, have a look at the output of MPlayer.

Diego