[MPlayer-users] Need help with viewing DVDs with USB DVD drive using mplayer

n0dalus n0dalus at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 09:00:07 CET 2006


On 3/13/06, R <rawgarlic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I attached an External USB Emprex DVD+-R/RW Writer to my Fedora Core 4 system.
> Model: DVDRW 1108UI/UB
> Product Details at: http://www.emprex.com/02_products_02.php?id=24
>
>
> At boot time it shows up as /dev/scd0
>
>
>
> So I ran mplayer with:
>  mplayer  dvd://1    -dvd-device  /dev/scd0
>
>
> Here is the output from mplayer:
>
...
> Looks like I am missing some options with mplayer.
> But I don't know which.

I'm not sure how to fix the problem you're having directly, but have you tried:
1) Using a non-usb DVD drive (do you get the same errors?)
2) Mounting the DVD contents to a directory, and playing with
-dvd-device=/path/to/mount/point

n0dalus.




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