[MPlayer-users] Mplayer and encrypted DVD

[Daniel Nagy]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 12:51:05AM +0100, Gunnar Haaland wrote:

> Hello and Merry X-Mas to you all.
> I am new to mplayer, have used xine earlier, with some small problems. 
> Perhaps Mplayer work better with my 450 P3 256 mg ram, no jerky movment.
> 
> But how do I start a dvd with Mplayer, I can start a small mpeg movie, but 
> when i tries to start "The Hand That Rock The Cradle" it wont start.
> I xine I used the d4d, and it starts.
> Can someone give me some tips, it also says no sound, I have used the alsa05 
> driver earlier with Xine.

the right command to play DVDs is probably "mplayer -dvd 1", but you're
better off reading the documentation. Also make sure you have the right
versions of libdvdread and libdvdcss (0.9.x and 0.0.3 respectively).

Cheers,

-- 
Dan