[MPlayer-users] DVD on a LAN

[pl]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 09:49:09PM -0700, Peter Plantagenet wrote:

> I've been trying to get MPlayer to play a DVD that's located on another 
> computer, called plato. I'm connected to plato through a fast LAN, so there's no 
> bitrate problem. The problems seems to be that libdvdread isn't able to detect 
> the dvd. Mplayer still sees it fine, but it runs into the scrambled data. 
> 
> So the question is, why can't libdvdread see the drive? I've tried having it 
> mounted and not mounted. The gory details:
> 
> The drive is actually located on /dev/hdc, as seen on bootup. In dev, there's a 
> symlink pointing to /dev/hdc. I tried to define either of these as the default 
> device for mplayer, but it doesn't see either. So I have to mount the DVD, which 
> I do on /media/dvd. Now mplayer can read it, but libdvdread doesn't see it. 
> Comprende?

Maybe you need something like nbd to allow a raw access to this remote
/dev/hdc.

> 
> I'm hoping you guys simply know the answer to this puzzle. If you don't, is the 
> problem in libdvdread? Any suggestions for what can be done?
> 
> I append the relevant screen print below. Incidentally, I've tried to use libcss 
> 0.0.1 for authentication, but mplayer just sits there and doesn't get through.
> 
> Cheers,
> Plantagenet
> 
> 
> 
> Playing DVD title 1
> libdvdread: Device inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.
> libdvdread: Using normal filesystem access.
> Reading disc structure, please wait...
> There are 9 titles on this DVD.
> There are 7 chapters in this DVD title.
> There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
> DVD successfully opened!
> Detected MPEG-PS file format!
> Encrypted stream but authentication was not requested by you!!

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Best regards,
  pl