[MPlayer-users] Encrypted VOB file (not compiled with libcss support) when playing over mplayer /dev/dvd

[Chris Phillips]

> > For the original poster, most of the time what you want to watch is
> > title number 1; DVDs that aren't set up that way are exceptions (at
> > least from the ones I've seen). Unfortunately, there are lots of
> > exceptions. For some of these, you can probably get by with determining
> > which track is longest in duration (lsdvd probably can do that). Others
> > actually have several titles you might want to watch, such as
> > DVD-compilations of TV shows, in which case you'll have to do something
> > more complicated, such as "any title longer than n seconds".
> 
> Thank you all very much for the good and fast help.
> 
> I think I will try the lsdvd longest duration track solution :)
> Maybe there will be a patch for mplayer.sh one day so that almost every 
> DVD is played without user interaction.

well it's not the sort of thing that needs to be "fixed" an additional 
feature might be nice, but would only ever be a bonus really...

if you are trying my lsdvd app you might like to try...

alias mpdvd="mplayer dvd://\`lsdvd | grep Longest | cut -b 16-\`"

chris