Re: Mplayer won't play dvd! (was: dvd movie playing)
Maybe you don't have the /dev/dvd symlink?
Am Samstag, 17. Juni 2006 17:08 schrieb Rodolfo Medina:
> It seems that mplayer's installation was successful on my Debian Sarge,
> I can also launch it with:
>
> $ gmplayer
>
> , but when I try to play a dvd, a window opens up saying:
>
> Failed to open dvd://1.
>
> , and on the terminal there is:
>
> Playing dvd://1.
> libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
> Reading disc structure, please wait...
> libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
> Can't open VMG info!
> File not found: '1'
> Failed to open dvd://1.
>
> . Can anybody provide any help!, thanks in advance.
> Rodolfo
>
>
>
> P.S.: Below are the steps I did to play dvd's with totem,
> thanks to Vitaliy and Wackojacko for their replies.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> That's what I did in order to play dvd's with totem:
> from:
>
> ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/
>
> I downloaded the package libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb and put it in ~/tmp.
> Then:
>
> $ cd ~/tmp
>
> # apt-get install liba52-0.7.4 libdvbpsi3 libdvdnav4 libdvdread3
> libglib1.2 libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common libmpeg2-4 libpng10-0 libtar
> libwxgtk2.4 libxosd2 ttf-freefont vlc wxvlc
>
> # dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb
>
> $ totem
>
> , then in `edit > preferences' I chose the desired device
> and so I could play dvd movies with totem.
> However, I'm not satisfied with the quality:
> on my desktop machine the movie walks by jerks,
> whereas on the same machine it is properly played with xine
> under Mandrake 10.1.
> I'll try with mplayer.
>
> Thanks,
> Rodolfo
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