From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GHRFw-00027v-4S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:29:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7RKPw3r028687; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:25:58 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7RKMBur014797 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:22:12 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so1236871nfc for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:22:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LBRqGw0AA54axcOVe/VLvU1LrlaV5Xjy53Nb4LHIoiD/ySMab1+S+PajKwf8ekw4QO0nrUM7HLCRJn3XRs7k3W9fNi8BVskQtIFw08AYyGop7KTvtd83UU1IRcdThD4vuHaDcQ3y+oRnJqMMdgUthzNrvIRG+cMxVVFpTZ6xU8U= Received: by 10.48.220.15 with SMTP id s15mr8172269nfg; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.241.1 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10608271322x311b4165paabcb89d7f7850f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:22:11 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs In-Reply-To: <342e1090608271304l68070f05i228997f43f10954b@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10608261727l6439a1b0w536ca75f0e57e290@mail.gmail.com> <200608261844.08124.bulliver@badcomputer.org> <49bf44f10608262004t5d8104bdsec4a12c0f2063d13@mail.gmail.com> <20060827110632.5b9fee3f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <49bf44f10608270724w558dde8dp2ddb7ffeb8a70e59@mail.gmail.com> <342e1090608271304l68070f05i228997f43f10954b@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 75c2ebbf-8aef-4cb0-b3dd-431355ac60c2 X-Archives-Hash: 75816d4c524866ee1722998a5c35c356 > > > > 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list