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Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?



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On Sunday 16 December 2001 2:42 pm, Keith Willoughby wrote:
> Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:
> > alan@kanger:/dev$ mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/dvd

the "-vcd 2" seemed to be the problem "-dvd 1" solved it [or at least allowed 
me to play the first few minutes of the dvd - It gives up at the end of the 
first (?) .vob file.]

...
> >
> >
> > (I just checked the permissions in /dev/dvd - these look fine)
>
> First of all, /dev/dvd is probably a symlink to the real device -

It is - I have devfs so the symlink is to some ide device (about 4 layers 
down).

> check the permissions of that.
> Secondly, you need write permissions to the device becuse of the CSS
> negotiation.

REALLY - this is a read-only dvd device???  and the permissions are set as 
r_xr_xr_x
- -- 

  Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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