[MPlayer-users] mplayer for windows question

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:23:02PM -0500, Matthew Stapleton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get mplayer for windows to play a dvd.  Although I can get
> mplayer to play all sorts of media files,  I cannot get it to play a dvd.
>  Do I need to download the libdvdcss library seperately?  If so, where do
> I get the libdvdcss library (for windows)?  And what exactly is this
> library named? When I execute 'mplayer dvd://1'  I get the following
> response:
> 
>         C:\mplayer>mplayer dvd://1
>         MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> 
>         c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description,
> ignoring.
>         Cannot load font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
> 
>         Playing dvd://1.
>         libdvdread: Could not open D: with libdvdcss.
>         libdvdread: Can't open D: for reading
>         Couldn't open DVD device: D:

is d: your dvd drive? if not you need to specify which drive with the
-dvd-device option.

rich