[MPlayer-users] DVD Dump Percentage Missing

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 03:41:32PM +0100, Damien Shiells wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to compile MPlayer (latest svn version as of 28/05/2012) using MSYS and MingW on my Windows 7 machine.
> 
> I can successfully compile (using "./configure --prefix=/mingw", then "make"), however when I try to dumpstream (using "mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile output.vob"), I sometimes do and sometimes don't get the percentage through the dump. Some titles even endlessly dump and produce video on a loop. It appears that mpctx->start_pos and mpctx->end_pos are not set in mplayer.c correctly.
> 
> Using the latest windows build by Sherpya (revision 34401), the percentage seems to work correctly all the time, however this version is now getting old and I would like to compile the latest myself.
> 
> Has there been a change to this code recently to cause this behavior? Or is there a particular library I am missing?

Have you applied his MinGW hacks/patches? Without them MPlayer can't
handle files (and DVDs) larger than 2 GB correctly.