[MPlayer-users] Encrypted VOB file (not compiled with libcss support) when playing over mplayer /dev/dvd

[Jörg Esser]

Corey Hickey schrieb:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Chris Phillips wrote:
>
>>> I play Road Trip with :
>>> mplayer  dvd://
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>> wrong. mplayer dvd://1
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> Actually, if you omit the title number, mplayer seems to play the first
> title by default. I was surprised to find that out too.... In any case,
> though, specifying the title is definitely necessary if you want to play
> anything other than 1.
>
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>>> I need to automate the whole thing. Put a DVD in my drive push the 
>>> play button and be happy ;)
>>> But if every DVD has other title and works different I can´t 
>>> automate the whole thing.
>>> I don´t want to look at the DVD to decide to use this or that option 
>>> for mplayer to view the film that´s
>>> to hard for dummy people like me :) (Ok I want to build a DVD player 
>>> without almost any user interaction)
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> For the original poster, most of the time what you want to watch is
> title number 1; DVDs that aren't set up that way are exceptions (at
> least from the ones I've seen). Unfortunately, there are lots of
> exceptions. For some of these, you can probably get by with determining
> which track is longest in duration (lsdvd probably can do that). Others
> actually have several titles you might want to watch, such as
> DVD-compilations of TV shows, in which case you'll have to do something
> more complicated, such as "any title longer than n seconds".

Thank you all very much for the good and fast help.

I think I will try the lsdvd longest duration track solution :)
Maybe there will be a patch for mplayer.sh one day so that almost every 
DVD is played without user interaction.



Keep up the good work,

Joerg Esser