[MPlayer-users] Mplayer won't play dvd's

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 17 June 2006 at 19:05, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> It seems that mplayer's installation was successful on my Debian Sarge,
> I can also launch it with:
> 
>  $ gmplayer
> 
> , but when I try to play a dvd, a window opens up saying:
> 
>  Failed to open dvd://1.
> 
> , and on the terminal there is:
> 
>  Playing dvd://1.
>  libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
>  Reading disc structure, please wait...
>  libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
>  Can't open VMG info!
>  File not found: '1'
>  Failed to open dvd://1.
> 
> . Can anybody provide any help!, thanks in advance.

Does any other player play DVDs? Please try mplayer -v dvd://1
and post its output. Also tell us what is your DVD drive's device name.

Regards,
R.

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