[MPlayer-users] mplayer for windows question

[Matthew Stapleton]

It turns out that I had to execute: mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device
d:\video_ts 


On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 19:32:06 -0400 Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:23:02PM -0500, Matthew Stapleton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to get mplayer for windows to play a dvd.  Although I 
> can get
> > mplayer to play all sorts of media files,  I cannot get it to play 
> a dvd.
> >  Do I need to download the libdvdcss library seperately?  If so, 
> where do
> > I get the libdvdcss library (for windows)?  And what exactly is 
> this
> > library named? When I execute 'mplayer dvd://1'  I get the 
> following
> > response:
> > 
> >         C:\mplayer>mplayer dvd://1
> >         MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> > 
> >         c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a font 
> description,
> > ignoring.
> >         Cannot load font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
> > 
> >         Playing dvd://1.
> >         libdvdread: Could not open D: with libdvdcss.
> >         libdvdread: Can't open D: for reading
> >         Couldn't open DVD device: D:
> 
> is d: your dvd drive? if not you need to specify which drive with 
> the
> -dvd-device option.
> 
> rich
> 
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