[MPlayer-users] Why won't MPlayer play my DVDs?

[RC]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:54:09 -0500 (EST)
"Andrew A. Gill" <superluser at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> It keeps suggesting that I read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html, but that
> doesn't help muxh, except  to tell me to get new firmware.  

Was mplayer (CVS) compiled from source with css support compiled-in?

> But I have no clue how to  install the new firmware unless I use
> Windows.

Usually there's a dos-based flash tool, which you can put on a
DOS boot floppy.  DR-DOS boot disks are freely available, as is FreeDOS.