[MPlayer-users] can't play second half of some commercial DVDs

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Tuesday 20 November 2007 17:00:48 Steve Kleene ha scritto:
> Here is a problem I've had with some, but not all, commercial DVDs.
>  I'm trying to play a commercial DVD with mplayer.  Mplayer and
> lsdvd both show 5 titles.  Title 01 (length 02:17:56.000) has 35
> chapters.  This succeeds:
>
>   mplayer dvd://1 -chapter 19
>
> but this fails:
>
>   mplayer dvd://1 -chapter 20
>
> With mencoder, I also tried indexing into title 01 with -ss. 

indexing is implemented only for avi files

> This 
> worked until the time got to about 1:08:49.  This is almost exactly
> halfway into the title, which is also what happened in the past. 
> (Sure sounds like a clue.) Greater start times gave failure.  Using
> "dvdnav" instead of "dvd" didn't help.

did you follow *all* instructions in DOCS/tech/dvdnav-howto.txt ?

>
> I just compiled mplayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 and ran the following:
>   ./mplayer -msglevel all=6 dvd://1 -chapter 20
>
> Here is the relevant output:
>   DVD start cell: 20  pack: 0x19F2BB-0x1B7423
>   DVD start=1700539 end=3143586
>   STREAM: [null] dvd://1
>   STREAM: Description: DVD stream
>   STREAM: Author:
>   STREAM: Comment:
>   DVD Seek! lba=0x19F2BB  cell=20  packs: 0x19F2BB-0x1B7423
>   stream_seek: WARNING! Can't seek to 0xCF95D800 !
>   stream_seek: WARNING! Can't seek to 0xCF95D800 !
>   MPEG Stream reached EOF
>   ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
>   MPEG packet stats: p100: 0  p101: 0 p1B6: 0 p12x: 0 sli: 0 a: 0
> b: 0 c: 0 idr: 0 sps: 0 pps: 0 PES: 0 Not MPEG System Stream
> format... (maybe Transport Stream?) stream_seek: WARNING! Can't
> seek to 0xCF95D800 !

relevant is the whole log, not only a part of it

>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to get around this problem
> and will be happy to provide any other debugging output that might
> help.  I'm running Debian Etch.
>

do you have the cache enabled? remove it.
did you try svn? what's the  title of the dvd you are playing?