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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 18 June 2006 at 20:45, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> 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'.

That's incorrect. See below.

> 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

Doh.

ln -sf scd0 /dev/dvd

Or use -dvd-device /dev/scd0

> 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!

Did you do as instructed?

Regards,
R.

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