[MPlayer-users] Need help with viewing DVDs with USB DVD drive using mplayer

[n0dalus]

On 3/13/06, R <rawgarlic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I attached an External USB Emprex DVD+-R/RW Writer to my Fedora Core 4 system.
> Model: DVDRW 1108UI/UB
> Product Details at: http://www.emprex.com/02_products_02.php?id=24
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> At boot time it shows up as /dev/scd0
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> So I ran mplayer with:
>  mplayer  dvd://1    -dvd-device  /dev/scd0
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> Here is the output from mplayer:
>
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> Looks like I am missing some options with mplayer.
> But I don't know which.

I'm not sure how to fix the problem you're having directly, but have you tried:
1) Using a non-usb DVD drive (do you get the same errors?)
2) Mounting the DVD contents to a directory, and playing with
-dvd-device=/path/to/mount/point

n0dalus.