[gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[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.

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[darren kirby]

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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

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[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).

gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time.  mplayer doesn't output
anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops
up right away, before a DVD is put in:

Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be
readable by the user.)

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Collins Richey]

On 8/26/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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).
>
> gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time.  mplayer doesn't output
> anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops
> up right away, before a DVD is put in:
>
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be
> readable by the user.)
>

Does your kernel have the real time clock feature turned on? There are
several ...RTC... settings in my kernel.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Grant]

> Does your kernel have the real time clock feature turned on? There are
> several ...RTC... settings in my kernel.

Do you know where those features are in the menuconfig?  I can get so
lost in there.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Collins Richey]

On 8/27/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does your kernel have the real time clock feature turned on? There are
> > several ...RTC... settings in my kernel.
>
> Do you know where those features are in the menuconfig?  I can get so
> lost in there.
>

Sorry, my gentoo system is in reconstruction, and  don't have a kernel
source available to run make menuconfig. Just wade through the choices
and look for 'real time clock' support.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Daniel Iliev]

Grant wrote:
> Do you know where those features are in the menuconfig?  I can get so
> lost in there.
>
> - Grant

 Device Drivers >> Character devices >> <*> Enhanced Real Time Clock Support

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Grant]

> > Do you know where those features are in the menuconfig?  I can get so
> > lost in there.
> >
> > - Grant
>
>  Device Drivers >> Character devices >> <*> Enhanced Real Time Clock Support

Thanks, I just set up my laptop, desktop, and server with it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:04:12 -0700, Grant wrote:

> gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time.  mplayer doesn't output
> anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops
> up right away, before a DVD is put in:

How do you run mplayer from a terminal with no DVD in thr drive, or are
you running gmplayer. Try

mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1

with a DVD in the drive


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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Grant]

> > gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time.  mplayer doesn't output
> > anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops
> > up right away, before a DVD is put in:
>
> How do you run mplayer from a terminal with no DVD in thr drive, or are
> you running gmplayer. Try
>
> mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1
>
> with a DVD in the drive

I was in fact using gmplayer.  Your command above is able to play 2
out of 4 of the DVDs just like gxine, and it fails much more
gracefully than gxine on the other 2.

I thought gmplayer was just a UI for mplayer.  Why would mplayer play
what gmplayer can't?  Is there a better UI for mplayer than gmplayer?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 8/27/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time.  mplayer doesn't output
> > > anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops
> > > up right away, before a DVD is put in:
> >
> > How do you run mplayer from a terminal with no DVD in thr drive, or are
> > you running gmplayer. Try
> >
> > mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1
> >
> > with a DVD in the drive
>
> I was in fact using gmplayer.  Your command above is able to play 2
> out of 4 of the DVDs just like gxine, and it fails much more
> gracefully than gxine on the other 2.
>
> I thought gmplayer was just a UI for mplayer.  Why would mplayer play
> what gmplayer can't?  Is there a better UI for mplayer than gmplayer?
>

Never liked gmplayer, it tends to crash on my system, while mplayer
itself has no problems at all. But to your question, I would sincerely
check my DVD drive, I also had problems exactly like yours, the
problem was a dying DVD drive that could not read some discs, and even
those discs seem to be readable once in a while... Let me ask you, is
this a notebook or laptop?

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Grant]

> > > > gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time.  mplayer doesn't output
> > > > anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops
> > > > up right away, before a DVD is put in:
> > >
> > > How do you run mplayer from a terminal with no DVD in thr drive, or are
> > > you running gmplayer. Try
> > >
> > > mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1
> > >
> > > with a DVD in the drive
> >
> > I was in fact using gmplayer.  Your command above is able to play 2
> > out of 4 of the DVDs just like gxine, and it fails much more
> > gracefully than gxine on the other 2.
> >
> > I thought gmplayer was just a UI for mplayer.  Why would mplayer play
> > what gmplayer can't?  Is there a better UI for mplayer than gmplayer?
> >
>
> Never liked gmplayer, it tends to crash on my system, while mplayer
> itself has no problems at all. But to your question, I would sincerely
> check my DVD drive, I also had problems exactly like yours, the
> problem was a dying DVD drive that could not read some discs, and even
> those discs seem to be readable once in a while... Let me ask you, is
> this a notebook or laptop?

It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old.  I don't like gmplayer
either.  Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the
command line to play DVDs?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Uwe Thiem]

On 27 August 2006 21:22, Grant wrote:

> It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old.  I don't like gmplayer
> either.  Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the
> command line to play DVDs?

No idea about the GNOME world but there is kmplayer for KDE.

For DVDs, I use kmplayer, mplayer or kaffeine - whatever works best. Except 
for DVDs home brewed on Windows systems that actually to not meet the specs 
of a video DVD, I have no problems playing them. And even most of those 
non-standard DVDs play.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:22:11 -0700, Grant wrote:

> It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old.  I don't like gmplayer
> either.  Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the
> command line to play DVDs?

See the listing of front ends at
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design3/projects.html



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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Grant]

> > It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old.  I don't like gmplayer
> > either.  Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the
> > command line to play DVDs?
>
> See the listing of front ends at
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design3/projects.html

I delved into that once and I just remember getting nowhere.  Does
anyone use one they like?  Preferrably one with an ebuild and not
dependent on K stuff.

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Collins Richey]

On 8/27/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old.  I don't like gmplayer
> > > either.  Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the
> > > command line to play DVDs?
> >
> > See the listing of front ends at
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design3/projects.html
>
> I delved into that once and I just remember getting nowhere.  Does
> anyone use one they like?  Preferrably one with an ebuild and not
> dependent on K stuff.
>

You could write yourself a little frontend with zenity (or similar) to
feed the right parameters to mplayer.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:35:41 -0600
Collins Richey wrote:

> On 8/27/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old.  I don't like gmplayer
> > > > either.  Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the
> > > > command line to play DVDs?
> > >
> > > See the listing of front ends at
> > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design3/projects.html
> >
> > I delved into that once and I just remember getting nowhere.  Does
> > anyone use one they like?  Preferrably one with an ebuild and not
> > dependent on K stuff.
> >

I like kmplayer, but in reality I prefer no gui for mplayer. give me a
command line. sorry kmplayer does probably need some "k stuff"

> 
> You could write yourself a little frontend with zenity (or similar) to
> feed the right parameters to mplayer.
> 
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>      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

[Xupeng Yun]

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2006/8/27, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>:
>
> I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop.
>

Did you set the "dvd" USE when you emerged mplayer?
like this:
USE="dvd" emerge mplayer
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