[MPlayer-users] Can mplayer plays Disney dvds?

[Roger Pack]

On 2/26/15, Tuan Nguyen <tuan2103 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Erik Auerswald <auerswal <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de> writes:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:16:24AM +0000, Tuan Nguyen wrote:
>> > it seems that mplayer has problems with
>> > playing Disney dvds with 99 titles.
>> > I have tried a couple of ways (changing -vo, -vc,
>> > trying with all titles) but have not been successful yet.
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>>
>> You can try dvdnav:// instead of dvd://.
>>
>> I have at least one Disney DVD MPlayer cannot play correctly. It only
>> works
>> with dvdnav://, but there are lots of hangs, probably while the DVD
>> tracks or titles are changed during playback.
>>
>> I did not find a single title to play the whole movie, but I did not try
>> every one of the 99 titles.
>>
>> VLC plays that DVD without problems. I prefer to use MPlayer with dvd://
>> for watching DVDs, but sometimes only VLC can play disc.
>>
>> [I do have a couple of other Disney DVDs that work fine with MPlayer
>> using
>>  dvd:// (or dvd://MOVIETITLE).]
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Erik
>
> Thanks alot Erik.
>
> Using dvdnav:// does give a better result as the player now can
> keep playing (while using dvd:// the player stops after a while
> without showing any images) but the images are still not clear (codec
> errors?)

If they look like garbled green guck then it may be that they are
encrypted and you don't have decryptor [libdvdcss library]
installed...