[MPlayer-users] Can't open VMG info! - STAND OUT AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM

[Antonius Stoiculescu]

	Hello guys,
sorry for the harsh subject. Hope you didn't get too pissed off.
I don't know if it's you whom I should mail to but, hey, this error still 
appears after conpilation of the sources downloaded from YOUR site. Next whom 
I'll be mailing are the libdvdread maintainers... but your e-mail was more 
handy. I hope you can understand...and (preferably) post this question in the 
FAQ. Needless to say that I sarched the whole google.com respectively 
google.com/linux for answers. The closest thin I stumbled across was this 
post:

Can't open VMG info!
do this commands:
 <might have to be root>
 mknod /dev/scd0 b 11 0
 mknod /dev/scd1 b 11 1

 gcc -O2 -o rpcmgr rpcmgr11.c
 su
 ./rpcmgr -i /dev/sg0
 ./rpcmgr -s /dev/sg0
 ./rpcmgr -r=1 /dev/sg0
 ./rpcmgr -r 1 /dev/sg0
 ./rpcmgr -r 1 /dev/sg0

 pico /etc/lilo.conf
 find root = /dev/hda1 append="apm=power-off hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
 change the hdc-ide-scsi to ide-cd

 save and exit
 and BE SURE TO TYPE:
 lilo
 THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, or else u will find urself can't go into ur kde or 
some othe badstuff, @ least thatz for my comp
 now ur scd0 is ur CDRW
 and ur hdc is ur DVD

 be root
 rm /dev/dvd
 ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
 <change other cdrom stuff to /dev/hdc if u need to>
 and hope u can play ur DVD now


OK, HERE'S THE ACTUAL FEEDBACK (from me personally):

1. I can't play DVDs because of the error "Can't open VMG info!"

2. this is the command console feedback:
	*when installing *.rpms from Packman
:~>gmplayer
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.3 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Xeon Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/MPlayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/goe/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/goe/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/goe/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 800x600 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /home/goe/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/home/goe/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/MPlayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/goe/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/MPlayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or 
/dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/goe/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or 
directory
Input config file /etc/MPlayer/input.conf parsed : 52 binds
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
SKIN dir 1: '/home/goe/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/MPlayer/Skin'

Playing /dev/dvd
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!

Exiting... (Exit)

	*when compiled from YOUR sources:
	:~> gmplayer
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.3 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Xeon Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
directory
Reading config file /home/goe/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/goe/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/goe/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 800x600 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0" => local display)
Reading /home/goe/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/home/goe/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or 
/dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/goe/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or 
directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file 
or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
SKIN dir 1: '/home/goe/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)

Playing /dev/dvd
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!


Exiting... (Exit)

 3. The error occurs when installing mplayer from compiled sources (downloaded 
from your website) as well as precompiled *.rpms (from links2linux->Packman)

 4. My system:
 OS: SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional (the *.rpms from Packman were meant for this 
distro)
 SOFTWARE:
 *when compiling the sources from YOUR website I only installed (except the 
default SuSE install): SDL-devel, libsndfile(-devel), libsmbclient(-devel), 
libpng-devel-libogg-devel-libvorbis-devel-gtkmm-devel-gtk-devel; I also 
deleted the libdvdread installed by SuSE because your player has it built 
into itself; all the bloody codecs (from Packman as *.rpms)
 *when installing the *.rpms from Packman I first installed (rebuilt, better 
said) libdvdcss2
 HARDWARE:
 Celeron 4 (1700 MHz), Gigabyte 845PE, 512 DDR, GF3Ti200 (with accelerated 
43.63 drivers-Q3A works fine), 20 GB WD HDD drive (primary master 1-st IDE -> 
/dev/hda), Pioneer 114 DVD drive (primary slave 1-st IDE -> /dev/hdb), Ricoh 
CD-RW (secondary master 2-nd IDE ->/dev/hdc), the rest I think is irrelevant
Note: before even compiling/installing something I did the following:
* created symlink to /dev/dvd: ln -sf /dev/hdb /dev/dvd
* enabled DMA on DVD: /etc/init.d/boot.local -> hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 /dev/hdb
 SYSTEM INFO:
 Kernel:Linux linux 2.4.20-4GB #1 Mon Mar 17 17:54:44 UTC 2003 i686 unknown 
unknown GNU/Linux
 libc version: -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1491599 2003-03-14 01:33 
/lib/libc.so.6
 gcc version:
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/3.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr 
--with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib 
--enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking --enable-libgcj 
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib 
--with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i486-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
 ld version:
GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.18 20030121 (SuSE Linux)
 binutils version:GNU assembler 2.13.90.0.18 20030121 (SuSE Linux)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `i486-suse-linux'.
 No problems with full screen mode
 No probems with VIDIX
 Processor:processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 1
model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 1734.310
cache size      : 128 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips        : 3460.30
 Video Card: Palit Miscrosystems GF3 Ti200 64 DDR-SDRAM
 Video driver type and version: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run ver:43.63
 Sound card type and driver: Creative SB Live 5.1 with kernel OSS driver 
(comes from editing the /etc/emu10k1.conf)

 5. It's mocking me
As I was writing you the above (logged on as user) I had opened a console with 
two sessions; one as root (don't remember what I was doing - on thing is for 
certain: when I try to play the DVD as root I get the error: Command not 
found; when I'm logged on as root I get the VMG error) and the other one as 
the current user. On the console as user I tried to play the DVD to send you 
the above output - but instead, strange thing, it started playing the DVD. 
OK, reboot to see if this fenomenon repeats itself - it doesn't (there's why 
you got the above output).

 6. Sorry for bother.