[MPlayer-users] DVD playback Q

[Philippe Marzouk]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:35:27PM -0800, P'ip wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Okay, mplayer works excellent except when it comes
> to DVD playback... I installed the DVD drive, did 
> a 'ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd/', and everything
> was great. I open up mplayer and opened a mounted 
> dvd. In the VIDEO_TS dir, I opened the first .vob
> I saw. (DVD was 'UHF'). It opened up the MGM DVD 
> logo movie, played it, and finished. It was great.
> 
> Then I tried loading a .vob from the actual movie... 
> wouldn't work. At all. It gave me the regular 'This 
> file format is not recognized/supported'. Since the 
> first .vob worked, I'm guessing the actual movie 
> files are encrypted somehow... I read the mplayer 
> docs, couldn't find anything on it. 
> 
> mplayer was set up as so: ./configure --enable-gui, 
> make, make install, and I have all the regular codecs 
> in /usr/lib/win32. I went into libmpvdkit2 and did a 'make'
> before doing the config to see if that changed anything... 
> it didn't (As far as I saw.). Any help would be 
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> RTFM!!!  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/DOCS

do not mount the DVD and launch mplayer with the -dvd switch (but read
the docs and manpage before).

Philippe