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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Cego
    Posts: 733 from 2006/5/28
    From: Germany
    Hi there,

    since i've exchanged the faulty DVD drive with a new one in my Powerbook MPlayer just won't play DVDs. Actually i dont even know if it ever worked on this machine since the drive was faulty as i got it.

    MPlayer starts to cache and then just gets back to idle.
    Here's what appears in the "Message" window of mplayer.

    http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/15e3.jpg/

    Under OS X everything works fine. It plays every DVD i put in.

    [ Edited by Cego 27.09.2013 - 01:21 ]
    Pegasos II G4 @1.0GHz, 1GB DDR Ram, Radeon 9200Pro, 240GB SSD+160GB HD, MorphOS 3.18, AmigaOS4.1 FE, Debian 8
  • »27.09.13 - 00:20
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  • Fab
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    Fab
    Posts: 1331 from 2003/6/16
    Of course mplayer will play dvd. The problem is most likely the way you do it. If you take a encrypted dvd and open a random file with mplayer it certainly won't work, and it will show these errors, which is normal, since it's encrypted.

    Just use "play dvd" icon or menu entry (or dvd:// -dvd-device ide.device:1 from command line).
  • »27.09.13 - 04:56
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Cego
    Posts: 733 from 2006/5/28
    From: Germany
    well fab, thats exactly what i'm doing! i'm not picking up a random file.
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  • »27.09.13 - 07:32
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Cego
    Posts: 733 from 2006/5/28
    From: Germany
    now i tried the command line and still the same. this is the output i get

    Code:
    MPlayer SVN-r36172-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
    203 audio & 422 video codecs
    Playing dvd://.
    There are 15 titles on this DVD.
    There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
    libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
    libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0000013c
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000001b6
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x0003515b
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x00035190
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x000351dd
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x00074189
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x000741d6
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x000c468f
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x000c65eb
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x00331ba7
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x00331bf4
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x003537d4
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x00353821
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB at 0x0037b45c
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
    libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x0037b4a9
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
    libdvdread: Found 7 VTS's
    libdvdread: Elapsed time 2
    number of audio channels on disk: 0.
    number of subtitles on disk: 0
    MPEG-PS file format detected.
    MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
    VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 2)  25.000 fps  8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)
    VO: [cgx_overlay_gui] Hello!
    VO: [cgx_overlay] Hello!
    ==========================================================================
    Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
    libavcodec version 55.2.100 (internal)
    [mpeg2video @ 0x2c65d790]Warning: not compiled with thread support, using thread emulation
    Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
    ==========================================================================
    Audio: no sound
    Starting playback...
    Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
    VO: [cgx_overlay] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
    VO: [cgx_overlay] Window mode.
    libdvdnav: DVD Title: STAR_TREK_NEMESIS
    libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 3EB0EE81___MVB__
    VO: [cgx_overlay] : window size: 1024x576.
    VO: Disabling blanker
    VO: [cgx_overlay] : cgxvideo.library >= 43.6 detected, using doublebuffer
    VO: [cgx_overlay] : using draw_slice_420p (PLANAR) primitive
    [mpeg2video @ 0x2c65d790]ac-tex damaged at 15 10
    [mpeg2video @ 0x2c65d790]Warning MVs not available
    [mpeg2video @ 0x2c65d790]concealing 1170 DC, 1170 AC, 1170 MV errors in I frame
    [mpeg2video @ 0x2c65d790]skipped MB in I frame at 44 10
    [mpeg2video @ 0x2c65d790]Warning MVs not available
    [mpeg2video @ 0x2c65d790]concealing 540 DC, 540 AC, 540 MV errors in I frame
    VO: Enabling blanker
    Exiting... (End of file)
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  • »27.09.13 - 07:40
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  • Fab
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    Posts: 1331 from 2003/6/16
    Well, try dvd://1 dvd://2 and so on, until you find a working title (or do the same in title combo box in gui mode, upper right).

    Since it can be a bit tedious, you can also try to enable dvdnav mode (menu -> project -> use dvdnav in GUI, or dvdnav:// in command line). That said, DVDnav is quite experimental in mplayer : it handles dvd menus, but has sometimes issues with playback/sync, because it doesn't support caching.
  • »27.09.13 - 09:01
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Cego
    Posts: 733 from 2006/5/28
    From: Germany
    nothing works, i tried it all. it will just cache and then get back to idle.
    Pegasos II G4 @1.0GHz, 1GB DDR Ram, Radeon 9200Pro, 240GB SSD+160GB HD, MorphOS 3.18, AmigaOS4.1 FE, Debian 8
  • »27.09.13 - 10:45
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  • Fab
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    Fab
    Posts: 1331 from 2003/6/16
    Quote:

    Cego wrote:
    nothing works, i tried it all. it will just cache and then get back to idle.


    Since dvdnav doesn't cache, i doubt you tried it.
    Anyway, try another dvd, maybe this one doesn't like mplayer (i played lots of dvd on my pbook, so it's definitely far from being a widespread issue).
  • »27.09.13 - 10:49
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Cego
    Posts: 733 from 2006/5/28
    From: Germany
    i tried dvdnav. it ends up in long loading times and then in corrupt graphics and broken sound. none of my dvds work so far under mplayer. maybe i could try vlc. do you know the exact command line to play a dvd with vlc?
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  • »27.09.13 - 10:56
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Cego
    Posts: 733 from 2006/5/28
    From: Germany
    ok, vlc plays the dvd (menu) with the following command

    vlc dvd://cd0:
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  • »27.09.13 - 11:01
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