[MPlayer-users] Can't seek to Track (WB)

[Luciano R. M. Silva]

> - mplayer1.0-pre7, pre8 both seem to "hang" and when I eventually
> press CTLR+C it dumps an error message saying couldn't seek to offset.
> When I try a lower track number (up to, let's say 4) then mplayer
> takes a little while but it finds the track.  With the higher number
> tracks I've let the thing "hang" for about an hour and still
> nothing...

If it is like:

> libdvdread: Can't seek to block 4293964377

I had this problems too. You need a different build patched to support large 
DVD seeks (>4GB??). Try a build from:

http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/xvid/

or

http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

Don't know why this patch didn't make to trunk yet... =/

> Also, I'm confused about where to unzip the codecs that I downloaded.
> What directly should they be in for a Windows install?

Extract them in .\codecs (below the directory were the executables are).

--
lrms

Jeff Schiller wrote:
> I've been using mplayer in Windows lately (through cygwin) and it
> works fine for the majority of the titles on my DVDs.  However, I'm
> having some trouble lately with Warner Brothers DVD films with bonus
> cartoons on them.
> 
> Right now I am trying to watch the cartoons on the WB "GoldDiggers of
> 1933" DVD. When I do:
> 
> mplayer.exe dvd://22
> 
> - mplayer1.0-pre5 can play the video, but it has no audio (it says
> Audio: None on the command line1)
> - mplayer1.0-pre7, pre8 both seem to "hang" and when I eventually
> press CTLR+C it dumps an error message saying couldn't seek to offset.
> When I try a lower track number (up to, let's say 4) then mplayer
> takes a little while but it finds the track.  With the higher number
> tracks I've let the thing "hang" for about an hour and still
> nothing...
> 
> The same thing happens when trying to watch the cartoon on the Warner
> Brothers "Little Caesar" DVD.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas how to fix this?
> 
> Also, I'm confused about where to unzip the codecs that I downloaded.
> What directly should they be in for a Windows install?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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