No real answer from the mplayer side on this question...re-posing here :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Noticed the other day with a (fairly mundane?) DVD (teenage mutant ninja turtles) $ mplayer dvdnav:// works splendidly $ mplayer dvdnav://1 basically just results in this message over and over again: DVDNAV stream read error! DVDNAV stream read error! though starting at chapter 2, then it starts playing ok again. I don't think this is a dvdcss thing, as it doesn't report any errors. dvd://1 also works fine. VLC works fine, even starting with chapter 1. 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 Any ideas what might be lacking in the mplayer code here? Some absent initialization/bootstrapping perhaps? -roger-