[MPlayer-users] Re: DVDNAV questions

[Nico Sabbi]

Jeremy Hansen wrote:

>> One thing to remember is to always run dvdnav:// with -nocache;
>
>
> Good to know. Is there a way I can put this in the config to run with
> only dvd's? I like to use cache because I play videos files off of
> dvd's all the time, and it helps with pausing for a couple of minutes
> and starting again because I don't have to wait for the drive to spin
> up.
>
maybe with albeau's new config system in ~/.mplayer/config it's possible
but I don't really know how to use it. Search in the docs

>> moreover  run these commands, please:
>>
>> ls libmpdvdkit2/*.[ao]
>
>
> No files where found using that command but here is the output for ls
> -a1 libmpdvdkit2/*

fine

>> ldd -d mplayer  |grep dvd
>
>
> jbhansen at therapist:~$ ldd -d /usr/local/bin/mplayer | grep dvd
>        libdvdnav.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libdvdnav.so.4 (0xb79ea000)
>
fine, too

> I had to add the full path to mplayer.
>
> Now I am not sure what the [ao] means (shed a little light if you
> could) but I am assuming I am missing some component needed. If so did
> my svn screw up or was it something I did?

the commands above were needed to verify that mplayer wasn't using its 
internal
libmpdvdkit xor the external libdvdread.
Tomas wrote that adding -nocache solved his problems, as I already knew :)
Not so for you?