[MPlayer-users] Problem with DVD playback

[Nico Sabbi]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 19:20, Jack Smith wrote:
> 
>>Sorry guys, but this gets worse and worse.  I thought I'd try updating
>>mplayer and see if it helped.
>>It looked good, got a more recent version of dvdnav too.  Can't scroll back
>>far enough to get the whole update but I did a "yum update mplayer" and this
>>is the end of the update.
>>
>> Updating  : mplayer                      ######################### [3/7]
>>  Updating  : mencoder                     ######################### [4/7]
>>  Cleanup   : mplayer                      ######################### [5/7]
>>  Cleanup   : mencoder                     ######################### [6/7]
>>  Cleanup   : libdvdnav                    ######################### [7/7]
>>
>>Dependency Installed: libcaca.x86_64 0:0.99-0.1.beta11.fc6
>>Updated: mplayer.x86_64 0:1.0-0.73.20070612svn.lvn6
>>Dependency Updated: libdvdnav.x86_64 0:0.1.10-3.20070503.lvn6
>>mencoder.x86_64 0:1.0-0.73.20070612svn.lvn6
>>Complete!
>>
>>But now, my keypad doesn't do anything when I try to navigate the menus.
>>Well, nothing except start the playback, whichever key I press.
> 
> 
> Yes, I had the same problem during LinuxTag and you're using my packages.
> So, short of using current SVN (which, in case of libdvdnav is the same
> as the rpm) and providing as much detail as Nico asks of you, I can't
> suggest anything else. Well, maybe, if it worked better before, try binary
> searching for the SVN revision that made it worse.
> 
> Regards,
> R.
> 

Jack, a binary search to detect the version that broke playback is the 
best thing that you can do, immediately followed by a merciful stop of
your top-posting.
Keep in mind that animated menus work well, but still menus aren't 
accessible yet and that if you want to access menu items positioning
the mouse you have to add -mouse-movements to your command line