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

[Reimar Döffinger]

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?)

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger