Re: missing codecs.conf
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:45:53AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, mplayer is entirely self contained, and
> when the package is installed it brings in everying needed to play DVDs.
i've acctually never used mplayer from debian repos. mplayer automaticaly
depends on libraries it needs. however i think that debian cannot include
win32 codecs and libdvdcss because of patents or something like this. so it
may have problem cracking the dvd titles.
>
> So, I should be able to pass an empty URI to the mplayer command and it
> automatically looks for a title to unencrypt from whichever DVD drive
> happens to be mounted.
you don't have to mount the device. mplayer(to be correct libdvdread) accesses
dvd as device in /dev/dvd(or anything specified using -dvd-device) because it
needs access to the specified sectors, not just a filesystem, which you get,
when you mount it.
mk
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