[MPlayer-users] MPlayer 1.0rc2 does not play DVD

[Malte Gell]

On Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007, Henry Garcia wrote:
> > The affected DVD came with a movie magazine. I suppose it contains
> > some bad blocks additionally to the normal CSS protection. Now the
> > funny thing: Xine can play this DVD, MPlayer not....
>
> It's probably a different problem.
>
> I believe that problem you've described is in the FAQ section. I
> believe you have to use the dvdnav options: If I remember correctly,
> just do the following. Otherwise, try using different numbers in
> place of 1: e.g. dvd://2, dvd://3.
>
> mplayer -dvd-device /dev/sr0 dvdnav://1

Thanks, I'll try that. But what strengthens my theory about the bad 
sectors issue is that I can copy the VOBs from the one DVD that can be 
played with MPplayer, but I cannot copy the VOBs e.g. to /tmp/ from the 
DVD that cannot be played with MPlayer... this really smells like bad 
sectors. And the funny thing, as mentioned, Xine can play the DVD with 
the inaccessible VOBs/sectors...

Regards
Malte