[MPlayer-users] DVD on a LAN

[Rene Bartsch]

Am Mon, 2002-06-10 um 11.12 schrieb pl:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 09:49:09PM -0700, Peter Plantagenet wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to get MPlayer to play a DVD that's located on another 
> > computer, called plato. I'm connected to plato through a fast LAN, so there's no 
> > bitrate problem. The problems seems to be that libdvdread isn't able to detect 
> > the dvd. Mplayer still sees it fine, but it runs into the scrambled data. 
> > 
> > So the question is, why can't libdvdread see the drive? I've tried having it 
> > mounted and not mounted. The gory details:
> > 
> > The drive is actually located on /dev/hdc, as seen on bootup. In dev, there's a 
> > symlink pointing to /dev/hdc. I tried to define either of these as the default 
> > device for mplayer, but it doesn't see either. So I have to mount the DVD, which 
> > I do on /media/dvd. Now mplayer can read it, but libdvdread doesn't see it. 
> > Comprende?
> 
> Maybe you need something like nbd to allow a raw access to this remote
> /dev/hdc.

I mailed with the author of nbd about 3 month ago as I did want to do
the same with the DVD-ROM in my server, but he told me direct hardware
access wouldn't work. So the only possibility seems to be mounting DVD
with NFS and using old libcss-style ...

Rene