Re: gmplayer up the creek for DVDs

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Sven Arvidsson on 18/12/06 14:43, wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:30 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > mplayer is working pretty well on my system with DVDs, but gmplayer is a disaster.
> >
> > My main problems (which are fine when run from the comand line) are:
> >
> > - the aspect ratio is wrong (the pic is too tall)
> >
> > - choosing the play button or 'play' from the menu plays the intro splash, not 
> > the whole dvd and I can't find a way to do that
> >
> >
> > I completely de-installed them both to eliminate any old config I might have 
> > had, and re-installed, but that had no effect.
>
> How? apt-get remove leaves all config files on the system, using apt-get
> purge will delete them. Any configuration files in you home directory is
> never removed.
>
> gmplayer seems to have a different configuration file than mplayer,
> maybe the video output is different between the two and that's why the
> aspect ratio is wrong?

I thought -purge deleted everything. I shall try again....

OK, there was no gmplayer config, but there was some mplayer config and I 
deleted that, but it made no difference to the aspect ratio.

Interestingly, after downloading a few other DVD players, I found that kmplayer 
works fine - this uses mplayer, but it is also based on xine, so I guess it 
could be using that instead.

I checked out vlc and that just like kmplayer operates fine too.

Ogle seemed to be OK for the aspect ratio too (but I couldn't get the sound 
working and it appears there are very few configuration options).

Thanks for the help,

Adam