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

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

> > > > 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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