[MPlayer-users] how to enable libdvdread, cannot play dvds

[Roberto Togni]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 20:09:08 +0000 (UTC)
Antonio Olivares <olivares14031-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> Dear folks,
> 
> I am running mplayer on Fedora 22 machine.  
> 
> 
> I get that I cannot play dvds because :
> 
> MPlayer was compiled without libdvdread support.
> 
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ mplayer dvd://$(mplayer dvd:// -identify -frames 0 | grep LENGTH | sort -n -t = -k 2 | tail -1 |cut -f 4 -d _) -dvd-device /dev/sr0
> No stream found to handle url dvd://
> MPlayer was compiled without libdvdread support.
> MPlayer SVN-r37420-5.1.1 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ mplayer dvd://
> MPlayer SVN-r37420-5.1.1 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team
> 
> Playing dvd://.
> No stream found to handle url dvd://
> 
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> [olivares at localhost ~]$
> 
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa libdvdread
> libdvdread-5.0.2-1.fc22.x86_64
> 
> 
> 
> Config files successfully generated by ./configure --prefix=/usr !
> 
> Install prefix: /usr
> Data directory: /usr/share/mplayer
> Config direct.: /usr/etc/mplayer
> 
> Byte order: little-endian
> Optimizing for: native
> 
> Languages:
> Messages/GUI: en
> Manual pages: en
> Documentation: en
> 
> Enabled optional drivers:
> Input: ftp pvr tv-v4l2 tv vcd dvb networking 
> Codecs: libvpx ffmpeg(internal) real xanim gif 
> Audio output: alsa oss v4l2 sdl mpegpes(dvb) 
> Video output: v4l2 matrixview opengl sdl gif89a pnm jpeg mng mpegpes(dvb) fbdev xvidix cvidix dga xv x11 xover yuv4mpeg md5sum tga 
> 
> Disabled optional drivers:
> Input: dvdnav vstream radio tv-v4l1 tv-dshow librtmp live555 nemesi cddb cdda dvdread bluray smb 
> Codecs: libschroedinger libdirac x264 xvid crystalhd libdv libopencore_amrwb libopencore_amrnb qtx win32 libopus ilbc faad2 faac musepack libdca libmpeg2 liba52 mpg123 libtheora libgsm speex libvorbis toolame twolame libmad liblzo OpenJPEG 
> Audio output: sndio sun openal jack pulse nas esd arts ivtv dxr2 
> Video output: zr zr2 ivtv dxr3 dxr2 vesa svga caca aa ggi winvidix 3dfx xmga vdpau xvmc directfb dfbmga bl xvr100 tdfx_vid wii s3fb tdfxfb mga 
> 
> 'config.h' and 'config.mak' contain your configuration options.
> Note: If you alter theses files (for instance CFLAGS) MPlayer may no longer
> compile *** DO NOT REPORT BUGS if you tweak these files ***
> 
> 'make' will now compile MPlayer and 'make install' will install it.
> Note: On non-Linux systems you might need to use 'gmake' instead of 'make'.
> 
> Please check MTRR settings at /proc/mtrr (see DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#mtrr)
> 
> NOTE: Win32 codec DLLs are not supported on your CPU (x86_64) or your
> operating system (Linux). You may encounter a few files that cannot
> be played due to missing open source video/audio codec support.
> 
> Check config.log if you wonder why an autodetection failed (make sure
> development headers/packages are installed).
> 
> NOTE: The --enable-* parameters unconditionally force options on, completely
> skipping autodetection. This behavior is unlike what you may be used to from
> autoconf-based configure scripts that can decide to override you. This greater
> level of control comes at a price. You may have to provide the correct compiler
> and linker flags yourself.
> If you used one of these options (except --enable-menu and similar ones that
> turn on internal features) and experience a compilation or linking failure,
> make sure you have passed the necessary compiler/linker flags to configure.
> 
> If you suspect a bug, please read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.
> 
> 
> 
> How can I enable libdvdread support?  It is installed:
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa libdvdread
> libdvdread-5.0.2-1.fc22.x86_64
> 
> 
Have you installed the development package of libdvdread?
I have no idea how it's called on Fedora, probably libdvdread-devel ore
something like that.


Ciao,
 Roberto