[MPlayer-users] Why won't MPlayer play my DVDs?

[Andrew A. Gill]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, RC wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:20:25 -0500 (EST)
> "Andrew A. Gill" <superluser at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
>> I've also tried the aforementioned Office Space DVD, and All the
>> President's Men.  None of them could be defined as playing, but
>> this one (vol. 2 of Gundam Wing) `plays' the best.  I can't even
>> get the All the President's Men DVD to give me garbled video.
>
> Okay, this really looks like you don't have css support working, for one
> reason or another.

That's what it's looking like.

> You might want to download and compile the latest
> version of libdvdcss and libdvdread, then compile mplayer with
> --disable-mpdvdkit (or something like that) so that it uses libdvdread
> for DVD support, and try again.

Did all of that.  Still garbled.

> Or you could try with vobcopy as Reimar suggested, but since you listed
> other programs that use dvdread, but couldn't play your DVDs I doubt
> you'll have any more success.

Did that, too.  No more success.

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Sigh.