[MPlayer-users] Why won't MPlayer play my DVDs?

[RC]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:20:25 -0500 (EST)
"Andrew A. Gill" <superluser at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> I've also tried the aforementioned Office Space DVD, and All the 
> President's Men.  None of them could be defined as playing, but 
> this one (vol. 2 of Gundam Wing) `plays' the best.  I can't even 
> get the All the President's Men DVD to give me garbled video.

Okay, this really looks like you don't have css support working, for one
reason or another.  You might want to download and compile the latest
version of libdvdcss and libdvdread, then compile mplayer with
--disable-mpdvdkit (or something like that) so that it uses libdvdread
for DVD support, and try again.

Or you could try with vobcopy as Reimar suggested, but since you listed
other programs that use dvdread, but couldn't play your DVDs I doubt
you'll have any more success.

I happen to have an older Alpha here, just taking up space...  If you
tell me know what distro you're using, I can try to reproduce it myself.

Perhaps this is some endian issue?  Does anyone else on this list with
an Alpha have DVD/CSS support working?