[MPlayer-users] how to play DVD with mplayer?

[Zheng Da]

Thank you.
It works.

On 8/26/06, Nico Sabbi <nicola_sabbi at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
>
> Zheng Da wrote:
>
> > According to the manual, I think the command should be "mplayer
> > dvd://[title
> > | [start_title]-end_title ] [options]"
> > I tried using "mplayer dvd://1", but got the error like this:
> > Playing dvd://1.
> > Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
> > File not found: '1'
> > Failed to open dvd://1
> > Exiting... (End of file)
> >
> > By the way, it seems that I have /dev/dvd, but I have dvd-rom.
> > So what is the problem? That I don't have a dvd driver or that I don't
> > write
> > the correct title in the command?
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> maybe you don't have a link pointing from your real dvdrom device to
> /dev/dvd.
>
> $ dmesg|grep -i dvd
>
> should tell you the device name, that you should append to
>
> $ mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device
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