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

[Rodolfo Medina]

Many thanks to all for the help.
It seems that the problem was in the simlink:
in my experience it must be

 # ln -s /cdrom /dev/dvd

and not `ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/dvd'.
Now I can watch dvd's with:

 $ mplayer dvd://1

. But still a couple of problems:
1) the movie is not fluid, it quite proceeds by jerks;
2) I cannot see dvd with gmplayer: I do:

    $ gmplayer dvd://1

   and a window says:

    Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

   The output is the following:


$ gmplayer dvd://3
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


Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.)

Playing dvd://3.
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/scd0 mounted on /media/cdrom0 for CSS authentication
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 8 titles on this DVD.
There are 3 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
Please send bug report - no VTS_TMAPT ??
DVD successfully opened.
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 2)  25.000 fps  8800.0 kbps (1100.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 2.0 (dolby)  48000 Hz  192.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.


Exiting... (Exit)



. Any help?
Rodolfo