[MPlayer-users] Re: [SLE] Playing DVDs on MPlayer from a directory takes a long time to start

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On 27. July 2004 at 10:40PM +0200,
Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> >>>It works like a charm, but it takes a long time (about 2
> >>>minutes) to start!
> >>
> >>Did you build mplayer yourself from the (latest) sources  ?
> > 
> > I tried both the version downloaded from Packman and one I
> > compiled (1.0pre5-3.3.3), but no luck. I just ran it with a
> > high verbose level, and it seems to be stuck while
> > displaying: get_path('DVDKeys') ->
> > '/home/phulshof/.mplayer/DVDKeys' about 9 times (there's
> > quite a bit of time between each message).
> 
> MPlayer caches the keys for decrypting when you use a DVD but
> it can't/won't do that when you have the files in a
> directory. So the delay is because it breaks the
> encryption. Remove the encryption and it should work fine, but
> don't as me how to do it (maybe -streamdump?)

vobcopy decrypts with option to mirror the dvd structure.