Anyone else having Mplayer work with the Radeon 9550 based 1.42 GHz iBook?
It loaded MorphOS fine.
And it reads DVD (shows me the files anyway).
But I can't get Mplayer to play a DVD.
Neat little machine for $70 (but it has the worst keyboard ever - can't help but think of early Sinclair).
Painful paying twice what I paid for the machine for the license though (especially when I'm not convinced that its built to handle much abuser).

Still...the guys gave me a new toy...so...later this week, OK.
Weird, I was bugging the developers for G5 support, but I haven't tried that yet.

BTW - Hey Frank, nice work on the 9550 driver.
I'd swear this is less painful then the 9200 in a Mac Mini (with comparable memory).

Just see which device the dvd uses and set it accordingly in MPlayer settings. If it still doesn't work, your dvd drive might be faulty too.

Thanks Fab,
I'll look further into it.

Some drives refuse to play (protected) dvd content if they don't have any region code set, maybe you should look into that as well ...

Thanks Frank,
I have been playing with it and it will run some titles I drag and drop into it.
But the playback is often distorted.
I do not get it.
This drive installed MorphOS perfectly.
So I assume I have some problem with Mplayer.

Edit - Leaning toward thinking I have a marginal drive.
Some DVDs that work fine on my set top player throw read errors under MorphOS.
Others display distortion.

[ Edited by Jim 19.06.2013 - 05:01 ]

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You have a problem with using MPlayer, rather. :)
You can't directly play encrypted titles by dragging them, else they will be totally trashed, since they'll be read as-is. You MUST use the play DVD icon/menu entry (and set your dvd device/unit accordingly, as i wrote earlier).


[ Edited by Fab 19.06.2013 - 07:18 ]

Thanks Fab,
That explains the distorted playback issue.
Funny, on PCs I often decrypt files for storage, but I have no similar tool to do this under MorphOS.
I can try decrypting under Windows then moving the files to my MorphOS system on my home network.
I'm not sure why, but I've never bothered to access my Windows and OSX based hardware via my home net.
Now I need to find why the DVD play button goes ignored when I try to use it.
After ordering a replacement drive (only $8.00), I leaning backing toward the idea that my OS has attirbutes misassigned.
Thanks again for pointing me back toward a more plausible solution.

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As i wrote earlier, see which device/unit your dvd drive is using (use unitcontrol if needed). And fill that in mplayer settings. By default, it's ide.device:1.

unitcontrol!Bingo!
That is why we need some documentation.
How many other useful tools are hidden in this OS?
Thank you!

I have never seen this drive designation before "idemacio.device:0"
It works now.
Anyone want to buy a spare iBook DVD drive cheap?

Actually,I do appear to be getting some read error on my combo drive.
I amprobably going to replace it.