[MPlayer-users] Re: [SLE] Playing DVDs on MPlayer from a directory takes a long time to start

[Gerhard den Hollander]

* Pieter Hulshoff <phulshof at xs4all.nl> (Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:13:04PM +0200)
> Hello all,

> I've tried playing DVDs from a directory (rather than the disk) using:
> mplayer -fs dvd://1 -dvd-device /home/phulshof/hp2
> It works like a charm, but it takes a long time (about 2 minutes) to start! 
> After that it runs fine, but that starting time is a tad too much for me. I 
> have no such problems when I play directly from the DVD. DMA is on on all 
> disks, but I kinda figure it treats the DVD as a 'loading when needed' while 
> it treats the directory as a 'load everything before you start'. Any 
> thoughts?

Did you build mplayer yourself from the (latest) sources  ?

I suually play the VOB files directly
(as in mplayer /path/to/files/copied/from/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB

which starts up just fine

I tried your way (with a live concert DVD I'd rcently downloaded)
mplayer  -fs dvd://1 -dvd-device .
and that started up immediately as well

%  mplayer -v
MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices 64-bit CPU

Currently listening to: cvb20040318t19

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