[MPlayer-users] Newbie? Playing DVD's on Mplayer

[nigel henry]

Hi Aaron. Thanks for the reply. I think it's all fixed now. A simple right 
click on the GUI for Mplayer brings up a menu with amongst other stuff "Open 
DVD" Click on that and the movie plays like magic. Thats Linux for you! 
Thanks again. Nigel


On Monday 21 Mar 2005 8:56 pm, Aaron Peterson wrote:

> I've never had any problem with the following:
>
> mplayer dvd://
>
> or
>
> mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /dev/dvddevice
>
> or if I want to play title 5 rather than 1
>
> mplayer dvd://5 -dvd-device /dev/dvddevice
>
> or on systems where mplayer has extreme difficulty finding the dvd drive:
>
> mount /dev/whatever /mnt/cdrom
> mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /mnt/cdrom
>
> etc...
>
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:54:49 +0000, nigel henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > On Monday 21 Mar 2005 1:02 am, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:09:18AM +0000, nigel henry wrote:
> > > > Hi folks. I'm trying to get Mplayer set up to play DVD's. It will
> > > > play sound files ok. .ogg, .wav, .mp3. But no matter what I try I
> > > > can't get it to play my DVD's. DVD ROM drive is Asus DVD-ROM
> > > > DVD-E616P 0104 CDU5211. Video Card: Rage 128 RL/VR AGP.  Sound Card:
> > > > Ensoniq ES1371 [Audio PCI-97] Driver ES1371. There is no problem with
> > > > the DVD ROM drive it plays fine on the same machine using Win ME and
> > > > the Asus software. This is on FC1, Kernel
> > > > 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl. Sound: OSS. I've set the video options to use
> > > > VIDIX driver which the manual says is for the Rage 128 card, but am
> > > > very confused about codecs. This is for playing PAL DVD's. The file
> > > > name for the DVD I tried is .VOB, but when I click on any of the
> > > > files on the DVD the Mplayer screen turns black and then reverts to
> > > > the Mplayer screen. Like Zilch. Any help to not have to use Win ME to
> > > > play DVD's would be very gratefully appreciated. Nigel.
> > >
> > > Read the documentation. You can't just play .vob files from the dvd.
> > > You have to use a command line of the form mplayer dvd://titlenumber
> > > where titlenumber is replaced by whatever title on the dvd you want to
> > > play. Usually it's 1 (or sometimes 2 or 3) for movie dvds, but
> > > sometimes you have to experiment until you find the right one, or look
> > > for a program that will dump the names and lengths of all titles on
> > > the dvd for you.
> > >
> > > Rich
> >
> > Hi Rich. Thanks for the help. Tried the command line, but it didn't want
> > to open the DVD drive. But tried playing some Simpsons episodes, .mpg and
> > .avi and just happened to right click on the screen while they were
> > playing, and a menu popped up with open DVD on it. As I still had the DVD
> > in the drive I went for it and it played like clockwork. I do think it
> > would be nice to have a nice little HOW-TO for the sake of those
> > migrating from Windows to Linux to show how to get DVD's to play. Theres
> > loads of tech stuff in the manual, and I'd read it right through, but
> > probably the first thing that someone is going to want to try, is to play
> > a DVD, and theres nothing specific as to how to do it. I'm very happy
> > with Mplayer because now I've got something I can play MP3's on as well.
> > Thanks again Rich. Nigel.
> >
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