[MPlayer-users] Can't play external DVDs

[Diego Zuccato]

Hello all.

I bought an external USB2-to-IDE box and a "standard" IDE DVD reader
(well, I tested with 3 different readers).
When I run "mplayer dvd://1" it recognizes the DVD structure, but then
stops, and I have to ^C it.
The actual outpu is:
[ndk at amleto Shared]$ mplayer -v dvd://1
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer dev-CVS-030513-20:48-3.0.3 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see
DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6,
Stepping: 6)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or
directory
Reading config file /home/ndk/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/ndk/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 55 audio & 144 video codecs
CommandLine: '-v' 'dvd://1'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/ndk/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
Font /home/ndk/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/ndk/.mplayer/input.conf'
Parsing input config file /home/ndk/.mplayer/input.conf
Input config file /home/ndk/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 53 binds
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Connection refused
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
get_path('menu.conf') -> '/home/ndk/.mplayer/menu.conf'
Menu inited: /home/ndk/.mplayer/menu.conf
get_path('1.conf') -> '/home/ndk/.mplayer/1.conf'

Playing dvd://1
get_path('DVDKeys') -> '/home/ndk/.mplayer/DVDKeys'
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 9 titles on this DVD.
There are 13 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
[open] audio stream: 0 audio format: ac3 (5.1) language: it aid: 128
[open] audio stream: 1 audio format: ac3 (unknown) language: it aid: 129
[open] audio stream: 2 audio format: ac3 (unknown) language: en aid: 130
[open] number of audio channels on disk: 3.
[open] subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: it
[open] subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: en
[open] number of subtitles on disk: 2
DVD start cell: 0  pack: 0x0-0x35150  
DVD start=0 end=2013071  
DVD Seek! lba=0x0  cell=0  packs: 0x0-0x35150  
Angle-seek synced by cell/vob IDN search!  
Checking for YUV4MPEG2
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x854f7b0  
ASF_check: not ASF guid!
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x854f7b0  
Checking for NuppelVideo
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x854f7b0  
Checking for REAL
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x854f7b0  
Checking for SMJPEG
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x854f7b0  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8550150  
Searching demuxer type for filename dvd://1 ext: (null)
Checking for MOV
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8550150  
Checking for VIVO
header block 1 size: 0
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8550150  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8550150  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8550150  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8550150  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8550150  
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8550150  
DVD Seek! lba=0x0  cell=0  packs: 0x0-0x35150  
Angle-seek synced by cell/vob IDN search!  
Checking for PVA
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8550150  
************Checking for TS************


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open
vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..

Looking at the logs, it seems it tries to rhead the DVD w/o
authenticating first, so it gets plenty of read errors.
When I connect any of the three readers to the internal IDE bus, it
works w/o any problem.
Attached is an extract from the syslog, up to the first error. I already
tried contacting Matthew Dharm (maintainer of the Linux USB mass storage
module), but the only thing we noticed is that there seems no attempt to
authenticate, just READ commands :-(

Most probably I'm missing something, but WHAT ?

Tks,
 Diego.