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christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

mplayer not playing

downloaded mplayer, and when i load it up (in my xfce4 panel the icon is set to gmplayer), it all opens up fine, but then I put in a DVD and press play and nothing happens, so I have a search around for the DVD and try to play that way but still nothing happens...!!?!?

Is there something I forgot to download, or just pressing wrong button on mplayer?

thanks!

kipper

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Registered: 2003-08-03

Posts: 49

Re: mplayer not playing

Have you tried playing the dvd from the command line?
That at least will tell you more information about what is wrong.
Use something like the following to play the first title on the dvd:

mplayer dvd://1 

By default mplayer looks in /dev/dvd to find the dvd device.  If that is not where your dvd device is you can try:

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

Also, since you are using the gui by default (gmplayer) you may need to go into the settings interface on the gui and set the path to the dvd device.  I can't remember where exactly that is as I haven't used the gui in a couple of years. Further, you may need to right click and select Play DVD to play the dvd, instead of just clicking on play.  Mplayer has no menu navigation by default, so it needs to know which title, etc to play.

christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

Re: mplayer not playing

when i type "mplayer dvd://1" it comes up with... (and i've tried this in root too)...

Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Playing dvd://1.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!

Exiting... (End of file)

.... i also don't seem to have a "/dev/dvd" directory.. .in "/dev" there's just files - "/dev/dvd" and "/dev/dvd0" but these files are not like the directory "/dev/cd"...

thanks!

christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

Re: mplayer not playing

when i try to mount the dvd in "/mnt/dvd" it comes up with...
Mounting /mnt/dvd
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dvd,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so
Mount failed

Done
There was one error.

... don't know if this part of the same problem..?

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: mplayer not playing

run gmplayer ... right click on screen go Preferences ... Misc set up your device paths (at bottom) then restart ....

HTH

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christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

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Re: mplayer not playing

hi!

my preferences are:

DVD device: "/dev/dvd"
CD device: "/dev/cd"

but when I right click on mplayer, go to play (or dvd- play file) the screen goes black for a moment and then comes up with

can't open VMG info!

is this anything to do with the other problems I posted above?

thanks

christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

Re: mplayer not playing

I've now installed:

It then came up with:

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

so I went into preferences-video and changed to another of the available drivers (x11)

... and it's working- but its pretty slow and the picture stutters a lot! is there a way of making viewing these things a bit more smooth and pleasurable on mplayer?

thanks!

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: mplayer not playing

You need to use the "xv" output driver. If that doesn't work, your xorg lacks XVideo support, which is normally caused by misconfiguration.

augustob

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From: Florianópolis, Brazil

Registered: 2006-03-17

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Re: mplayer not playing

You should be using ogle for DVDs anyway  8)

Mr Green

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Re: mplayer not playing

hi!

my preferences are:

DVD device: "/dev/dvd"
CD device: "/dev/cd"

but when I right click on mplayer, go to play (or dvd- play file) the screen goes black for a moment and then comes up with

can't open VMG info!

is this anything to do with the other problems I posted above?

thanks

errr no /dev/hdX where hdX is your dvd drive

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christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

Re: mplayer not playing

okay my preferences - video are back on the driver:

xv   X11/Xv

and my DVD device is

/dev/dvd

(I've tried /dev/hdc but that doesn't work)

and what comes up now is :

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

any ideas? I don't know how to set up Xvideo...?

thanks!

kipper

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Registered: 2003-08-03

Posts: 49

Re: mplayer not playing

/dev/dvd on my system is a symlink to /dev/cd/dvd-hdc which in turn points to /dev/hdc

Since you have an error mounting /mnt/dvd what is your corresponding fstab line?

/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0

Some helpful configuration options for mplayer:
vo=xv
ao=alsa
double=yes
framedrop=yes

You can identify which output drivers are available for you by typing:

mplayer -vo help

On my system this results in:

Available video output drivers:
        xv      X11/Xv
        x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
        xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
        gl      X11 (OpenGL)
        gl2     X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
        dga     DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
        vesa    VESA VBE 2.0 video output
        xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)
        cvidix  console VIDIX
        null    Null video output
        mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card
        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
        png     PNG file
        jpeg    JPEG file
        gif89a  animated GIF output
        tga     Targa output
        pnm     PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
        md5sum  md5sum of each frame

As for Xvideo configuration, what default depth are you using?  What's your video card and which driver? Default resolution and screen depth?

christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

Re: mplayer not playing

my /etc/fstab is:

/dev/dvd    /mnt/dvd       udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0   0

mplayer -vo help results in :

Available video output drivers:
        xv      X11/Xv
        x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
        xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
        dga     DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
        sdl     SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
        vesa    VESA VBE 2.0 video output
        xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)
        cvidix  console VIDIX
        null    Null video output
        mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card
        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
        png     PNG file
        jpeg    JPEG file
        tga     Targa output
        pnm     PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
        md5sum  md5sum of each frame

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: mplayer not playing

and what comes up now is :

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

any ideas? I don't know how to set up Xvideo...?

Configure xorg properly. The xvinfo command should tell you if xvideo is available. If not, check your xorg.conf file.

christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

Re: mplayer not playing

it comes up with:

X-Video extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adapters present

RaLX

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Registered: 2005-10-17

Posts: 54

Re: mplayer not playing

I don't know if you solved your problem but I resolved some similar problem simply adding my user to "optical" group.

christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

Re: mplayer not playing

thanks- i'm in 'users', 'optical', 'audio' and a couple of others, but still no change...