[MPlayer-users] Newbie problems with mplayer on FreeBSD-7.2

[RC]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:38:02 +0530
Manish Jain <invalid.pointer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed mplayer (+skins +fonts) from the latest ports snapshot 
> yesterday, along with libdvdcss, libdvdnav and libdvdread.

If you have a problem with FreeBSD ports, you should report it to the
port maintainer, not upstream projects.

> 1) This is with an encrypted DVD
> mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/acd0
> 
> Playing dvd://1.
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/acd0
> No stream found to handle url dvd://1
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)

I suspect you need to change the permissions on the device...  Nothing
MPlayer-related at all.  I've certainly never had any problems, either
with the port, or with official, unpatched sources.

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