[MPlayer-users] dvdnav://1 fails to play

[Ron Johnson]

On 12/03/2011 12:37 AM, Roger Pack wrote:
> Noticed the other day with a (fairly mundane?) DVD:
>
> $ mplayer dvdnav://
> works splendidly
>
> $ mplayer dvdnav://1
> basically just results in this message over and over again:
>
> DVDNAV stream read error!
>
> other possible sightings:
> http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu/msg14246.html
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/dvdnav-discuss/2010-June/001216.html
> http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/yyjk0WtF6hP8c794lzlm
>
> I don't think this is a dvdcss thing.
> dvd://1 also works well.
>
> Any ideas here?
> Thank you for your support on this subject.

My (probably flawed) understanding is that the whole point of dvdnav is 
to use the DVD menus, so what's the actual *point* of "dvdnav://1"?

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