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

Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.medina at gmail.com
Sat Jun 17 22:41:41 CEST 2006


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.


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> writes:

> Does any other player play DVDs? 


Yes, totem does.



Dominik:

> Please try mplayer -v dvd://1
> and post its output. 



Here it is:

# mplayer -v dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
CommandLine: '-v' 'dvd://1'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/root/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
get_path('input.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
get_path('1.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/1.conf'

Playing dvd://1.
get_path('sub/') -> '/root/.mplayer/sub/'
URL: dvd://1
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!
File not found: '1'
Failed to open dvd://1.

vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..

Exiting... (End of file)


Dominik:

> Also tell us what is your DVD drive's device name.

NEC DVD-RW ND-3540A, if this is what you mean (/dev/hdb I think).

Thanks, regards
Rodolfo




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