[MPlayer-users] Can't seek to Track (WB)

Jeff Schiller codedread at gmail.com
Sat Jul 15 22:51:31 CEST 2006


Thanks a bunch, Luciano - that completely solved my problem.

Regards,
Jeff

On 7/15/06, Luciano R. M. Silva <lucianorms at gmail.com> wrote:
> > - mplayer1.0-pre7, pre8 both seem to "hang" and when I eventually
> > press CTLR+C it dumps an error message saying couldn't seek to offset.
> > When I try a lower track number (up to, let's say 4) then mplayer
> > takes a little while but it finds the track.  With the higher number
> > tracks I've let the thing "hang" for about an hour and still
> > nothing...
>
> If it is like:
>
> > libdvdread: Can't seek to block 4293964377
>
> I had this problems too. You need a different build patched to support large
> DVD seeks (>4GB??). Try a build from:
>
> http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/xvid/
>
> or
>
> http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
>
> Don't know why this patch didn't make to trunk yet... =/
>
> > Also, I'm confused about where to unzip the codecs that I downloaded.
> > What directly should they be in for a Windows install?
>
> Extract them in .\codecs (below the directory were the executables are).
>
> --
> lrms
>
> Jeff Schiller wrote:
> > I've been using mplayer in Windows lately (through cygwin) and it
> > works fine for the majority of the titles on my DVDs.  However, I'm
> > having some trouble lately with Warner Brothers DVD films with bonus
> > cartoons on them.
> >
> > Right now I am trying to watch the cartoons on the WB "GoldDiggers of
> > 1933" DVD. When I do:
> >
> > mplayer.exe dvd://22
> >
> > - mplayer1.0-pre5 can play the video, but it has no audio (it says
> > Audio: None on the command line1)
> > - mplayer1.0-pre7, pre8 both seem to "hang" and when I eventually
> > press CTLR+C it dumps an error message saying couldn't seek to offset.
> > When I try a lower track number (up to, let's say 4) then mplayer
> > takes a little while but it finds the track.  With the higher number
> > tracks I've let the thing "hang" for about an hour and still
> > nothing...
> >
> > The same thing happens when trying to watch the cartoon on the Warner
> > Brothers "Little Caesar" DVD.
> >
> > Anybody have any ideas how to fix this?
> >
> > Also, I'm confused about where to unzip the codecs that I downloaded.
> > What directly should they be in for a Windows install?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff
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