[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer won't play dvd's

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>>> It seems that mplayer's installation was successful on my Debian Sarge,
>>> I can also launch it with:
>>> 
>>>  $ gmplayer
>>> 
>>> , but when I try to play a dvd, a window opens up saying:
>>> 
>>>  Failed to open dvd://1.
>>> 
>>> , and on the terminal there is:
>>> 
>>>  Playing dvd://1.
>>>  libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
>>>  Reading disc structure, please wait...
>>>  libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
>>>  Can't open VMG info!
>>>  File not found: '1'
>>>  Failed to open dvd://1.


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> writes:

>> Does any other player play DVDs? 


Yes, totem does.



Dominik:

>> Please try mplayer -v dvd://1
>> and post its output. 



... and here's another output, from my laptop, where mplayer's installation
was more accurate:

$ mplayer -v dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 28, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2

get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/rodolfo/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading /home/rodolfo/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/rodolfo/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
CommandLine: '-v' 'dvd://1'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/rodolfo/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /home/rodolfo/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.)
Using nanosleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/rodolfo/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/rodolfo/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
get_path('1.conf') -> '/home/rodolfo/.mplayer/1.conf'

Playing dvd://1.
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/rodolfo/.mplayer/sub/'
URL: dvd://1
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!
File not found: '1'
Failed to open dvd://1.

vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..

Exiting... (End of file)