I have been trying to get DVD's to play on my Peg II.

What is the command line you use that plays DVD's? I have tried lots of combinations, ie mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device ide.device:2

I have tried 2 different DVD's
1 Samsung Combo 352B (I did flash with no region.)
1 Toshiba SD-M1202 DVD player

Can't get either to play....

Thanks!

Matt

Try changing the icon's tooltypes. Uncomment out the (DVD Device) and the (DVD Title) put your proper dvd device number and try title 1..

magnetic

Hi!


I always play DVD with mPlayer out of CLI with
the following line:

mplayer -vo cgx -ao ahi_dev -framedrop -dvd 2
DVD_DEVICE=ide.device:1


The unit of your ide.device might be different!

Good luck!

Bo

Hello,

Does DD5.1 supported?

Regards,

Tcheko.

hi,

i made a small script (PlayDVD) which makes starting of a dvd with mplayer more comfortable (so you don't need to enter that long line again and again, I'm lazy )

It's simple, but maybe useful for ya.

Get it from here

regards,
tokai

I was able to play DVD's in AMP, but it wasn't as smooth as I would've
liked. The Samsung SM-352B has great stats and I have a Peg II(1gig)
, so it must be AMP.


Has anyone made a speed comparison with AMP and MPlayer?

I will buy another dvd drive IF MPlayer is much faster than AMP.

What does DD5.1 mean?

I will list both drives in the compatibility area a ok for CD but not
for dvd's with MPLayer...

Thanks,

Matt

@matt

I don't know how slow AMP is (the version I had was too buggy and crahsed all the time), but MPlayer plays every here DVD very well. You actually really can use the Peg2 as dvd player. Except for the missing DVD-Menu-Handling. But I hope this will implemented in a further MPlayer version.

Quote:

Dolby Digital 5.1 (5 speakers + 1 bass speaker)

Ok,

Here is all that my research has produced:

DVD Drive List and results...

Samsung Combo 352B (with Regin Free Flash) - Plays DVD's in AMP2 and not in Mplayer. The playback in AMP2 does slow slightly on a regular basis. Video quality is nice. Like the AMP GUI as well.

Samsung SD-816 DVD ROM - Would not play dvd's in either Mplayer or AMP2.

Toshiba SM-1202 DVD ROM - Would not play dvd's in either Mplayer or AMP2.

Sony DDU1612 DVD-ROM (With latest Firmware, region free would not flash to this drive.) - Wouldn't play dvd's in either Mplayer or AMP2.

Pioneer 105 DVD ROM (with 1.22 Firmware) - Will play DVD's in Mplayer and NOT in AMP2.


Hope this helps...

Matt

One question concerning MPlayer playback.

The right hand side of the screen has a refresh problem, while the middle and left sides of the dvd playback screen look great.

The only solution I have found to work is lowering my workbench resolution from 1280x1024 to 800x600. This is a pain, I have played with the cgx setting with no luck as of yet.

Any ideas on how to keep my resolution and play dvd's without the refresh problem?

I have a peg II (G4)
512M ram
Voodoo 3500 AGP tv (think I flash the card long time ago...?)
Playing off my SM-352B.

Thanks for the help.


Matt

matt3:

i have a radeon9000 here and i cannot reproduce refreshproblems like you described. I think it's a problem with the/your voodoo.

regards,
tokai

I would have to say after my testing, if you find a drive with hardware encoded regions it will probably work great with Mplayer. All the drives I had trouble with were newer software (firmware) region drives.

AMP2, worked with newer dvd drives, had a great gui, BUT was not compiled for MorphOS and a bit slow for playing back DVD's. (on a Peg II 1gig).

If the AMP2 programmer would compile a MOS version, we would have it made!

Enjoy,

Matt

I have a Toshiba SD-M1302 in my Peg1 and mplayer plays only about 2 out of 7 DVD's I've tried with it. The only ones that have played both were music video DVD's. The ones that wouldn't play were all movies, except for Queen's "Live at Wembley" concert. The Peg mounts all the DVD's on Ambient just fine...it just gives a read/write error when you try to play the others. I start mplayer by simply doubleclicking on it, not from the command line. This drive worked perfectly on a Mac using Apple's DVDplayer app. I believe the problem stems from the idiotic region limitations, though I've never changed the settings on the drive.

@cchaven:

you really should try to play DVDs correctly before you're going to say it does not work!

Use my script (link in a post above) and play dvds with the right parameter.. maybe it will work for you.. the chances are 50:50.

regards,
tokai

The results are still the same, even if I start mplayer from the command line using:

mplayer -vo cgx -ao ahi.dev -framedrop -dvd 2 DVD_DEVICE=ide.device:2

It plays the music video DVDs, or at least the pre-menu splash screen, fine, while it aborts with errors of not being able to find various conf files or the DVD if I place one of the other DVD's into the drive. I was using the icon to test playback since it was giving better playback (both resolution and aspect ration settings) than typing in the command line each time, as well as being able to easily choose which section of the DVD to play. Based on it's ability to play two of the DVD's like that, it would suggest there was a difference between those two and the rest of the DVD's, not an overall problem of having the software settings incorrect.