[MPlayer-users] problem with a specific DVD, but xine works fine

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 10 October 2008 at 00:53, Mike Castle wrote:
> I'm running Debian testing + stuff from debian-multimedia.org
> 
> I have the same problem with whatever version of older mplayer comes
> with Debian testing as well DebMM's dev-SVN-r26940 and my own built
> dev-SVN-r27725-4.3.2
> 
> I also have this problem on two separate computers.  Most other DVDs work fine.
> 
> The DVD in question is The DaVinci Code, Disc 1, Region 1.
> 
> What happens is, if I play with:
> 
> mplayer dvd//:1
> 
> it hangs after about 8 seconds and the kernel starts spewing messages like:
> 
> [80665.956897] hda: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
[...]
> I thought that both xine and mplayer were built on top of
> dvdnav/dvdread, but I can't figure out where xine called into that
> library (granted I didn't spend a lot of time on it either).  A little
> further seems to indicate that xine manages it's own local version of
> libdvdnav?  Blast divergence.  I was hoping that this would be a
> difference in how mplayer uses the library vs how xine uses the
> library.  But now I wonder if it's a problem in the library instead.
> 
> I'm willing to try a variety of things and hack on this for a while if
> anyone wants to throw suggestions at me.

Try:
mplayer dvdnav://1

Regards,
R.

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