[MPlayer-users] dvd playback fails

[khayos]

Greetings!

I am a relatively new mplayer user, and my experience is sufficient
only to tell me that the following should do what I need:
mplayer -ao alsa -vo x11 -alang en dvd://1

Normally this works, but I have just now rented a DVD that refuses to
play.  It seems to work at first as it brings up the video window to
which I am accustomed, but then stops a second later having not
actually displayed anything.  Here is the output I get:


[BEGIN SCREENDUMP]
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:               Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz (Family: 15,
Model: 0, Step
ping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your
system startup
 scripts.

Playing dvd://1.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 24 titles on this DVD.
There are 3 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
No matching DVD audio language found!
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 2.0 (stereo)  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)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
alsa-init: using device default
alsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGRA special converter
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12
A:   1.3 V:   0.7 A-V:  0.551 ct:  0.103  31/ 31 13% 22%  0.8% 0 0
alsa-uninit: pcm closed

Exiting... (End of file)
[END SCREENDUMP]


I know it says that there is no matching audio language, but I've
tried simply "mplayer dvd://1" in hopes that the dvd would succumb if
I allowed mplayer to auto-detect everything.  No luck, however -- the
same results.

To be perfectly honest, I have no idea what mplayer is telling me or
how to make this work.  If someone can offer me some direction,
assistance, answers to life, etc.,  will be most grateful.

Cheers, and thanks in advance!