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From: darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:44:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608261844.08124.bulliver@badcomputer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10608261727l6439a1b0w536ca75f0e57e290@mail.gmail.com>

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quoth the Grant:
> I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop.  I have 4 DVDs here and
> it played one of them once, but that's it.  Sometimes a message will
> pop up saying "failed to play DVD" but sometimes not.  Does anyone
> know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this?  I'm
> emerging gxine now.  I know that worked at one time.

Start mplayer from an xterm, and it will print more useful debug info 
(hopefully).

> - Grant

-d
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-27  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-27  0:27 [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs Grant
2006-08-27  1:44 ` darren kirby [this message]
2006-08-27  3:04   ` Grant
2006-08-27  3:25     ` Collins Richey
2006-08-27 14:25       ` Grant
2006-08-27 16:10         ` Collins Richey
2006-08-27 17:23         ` Daniel Iliev
2006-08-27 20:19           ` Grant
2006-08-27 10:06     ` Neil Bothwick
2006-08-27 14:24       ` Grant
2006-08-27 20:04         ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-08-27 20:22           ` Grant
2006-08-27 20:41             ` Uwe Thiem
2006-08-27 21:13             ` Neil Bothwick
2006-08-27 21:55               ` Grant
2006-08-28  1:35                 ` Collins Richey
2006-08-28  2:21                   ` Nick Rout
2006-08-28  9:35 ` Xupeng Yun

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