What's the matter with mplayer...

i succed in compiling it whith libdvdread; dvd are well recognize, i m able to read information on my dvd :

numbers of chapters, angles, sub titles

even if french language isn't recognize , i am happy with this great programm which gives goods results on a 550 mhz pentium 3.

but when i use gui

mplayer -gui

and use the play icon, it opens the dvd and immediatly crash ?????

any ideas ?

thanks a lot for your help.

well if you can give some details about it. personally i NEVER use the GUI, it's so much easier and faster to sort it all out from the command line. i don't think i managed to get dvd's to play with the gui when i tried it, remember that the gui is still officailly unstable. the docs at mplayhq.hu are very very good, and you should read them all in great detail. also check the mplayer-users email list and archive, which you can get to from the site.

thanks for being so fast!!

yes i try to use the command line and every thig went fine.

the subtitles in french..

I would like to hear a film in french language ?

mplayer -alang ??? and then ?

guess i 'm trying to use xine too!

read the man pages for options such as that. and don't use xine!!

I have done it thanks!!

i just need the number wich correspond to french, la langue de Molière

thanks for any help

oh dear, i hear alarm bells!

i just got all the stuff for xine last night and am going to try it all out tonight... but why shouldn't i use it?

is there something wrong with it that i should know about?

cos it's just so much more versatile than xine. it can play dozens of file formats, and can run on a hell of a lot of video outputs, even three outputs for not running under X. AND it has a REALLY fast divx encoder. encode a 2 hour dvd completely in under 3 hours. it just plain whups it compeltely, even if you need to experiment a little with it to get it working best. For example there are at least half a dozen different ways to decode divx films, one uses the exact same files as xine, some use highly optimized methods, which means that i can watch divx on my p200.