RE: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD
Wrong way.
1) Install mplayer from Debian-mar*
2) Run: mplayer -dvd-device /dev/hdc dvd://1
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Buys [mailto:brunobuys@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 7:26 AM
To: Debian list
Subject: Re: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD
David Purton wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I don't have a dvd player, but occasionally African Enterprise sends me
>short DVDs of their work. Usually they are short enough that I can just
>copy the contents onto a CD at work and bring it home to watch using
>*some move player*.
>
>The last one was made up of 5 VOB files, that I had to play one at a
>time and they would stop at inopportune moments and I'd have to load up
>the next one.... not that great...
>
>so I end up going with something like this:
>
>$ mplayer /media/cdrecorder/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB
>$ mplayer /media/cdrecorder/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB
>etc...
>
>
>if I try to run totem-xine, I get this:
>
>$ totem file:///media/cdrecorder/
>libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.0.1 from http://xine.sf.net
>libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
>libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/hdc mounted on
>/media/cdrecorder for CSS authentication
>libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
>libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/dcpurton/.dvdnav/.map'
>libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
>libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
>libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
>libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
>libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.0.1 from http://xine.sf.net
>libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
>libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/hdc mounted on
>/media/cdrecorder for CSS authentication
>libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
>libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/dcpurton/.dvdnav/.map'
>libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
>libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
>libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
>libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
>
>
>And Totem gives this error message:
>
>Totem could not play 'dvd:///media/cdrecord/'.
>There is no plugin to handle this movie.
>
>
>
>I read this as totem is trying to access it as a UDF filesystem - but
>obviously it's not - it's iso9660 - so it fails. :(
>
>
>Any suggestions on how to play this properly?
>
>
>
>cheers
>
>dc
>
>
>
>
Seems like you´re missing libdvdcss. This is what 'encrypted dvd support
unavailable' is about.
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