[MPlayer-users] MPlayer hangs playing 'Sony Pictures' DVDs.

[RC]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:53:21 -0600
mplayerhq.hu at jamesplace.net wrote:

> After about 10 second it hangs. I  can not stop mplayer with <ctrl><c>
> or 'kill' 

Yes, the OS won't end a process when it's hung on disc IO.  Either you
can wait for a couple minutes, or you can use: 
  "echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock" 
  Then hit the eject button on the drive...