i have mplayer on suse 8.1. it has played some online streaming video with no sound. when i try to play a dvd, it,s chopping, jerky, and sometimes i get sort of a video, but it mostly a stream of moving non-picture squares.

why will my mplayer not play dvds

and how to i enable sound

Have you tried using xine, doesn't that play dvd's....

Garry

"MPlayer - because xine is naff..!"

what system are you using? try the various optinos like -framedrop and -ni (see manpage) also make sure you have a good video output in use like -vo xv instead of -vo x11. also ensure DMA is turned on on your DVD drive using hdparm.

hehe sorry acid, still newbie....but just giving alternatives, i personally don't play dvd's on my comp....

Garry

will check out the suggestions tonight, got to hit the sack.thanks ronss

howdy-i still cannot play mplayer. i have enabled dma on my dvd drive, which took out the jerkiness i was having . also, my video drivers i am using are xv. i have tryed all 3 , but have xv installed. also have enabled double buffering and frame dropping.

using suse 8.1

one thing that i believe may be causing the problem , is that i downloaded nvidia glx-1 and nvidia kernel, this has not been tested on suse 8.1, maybe this is the problem?
the software has enabled 3d acceleration, but maybe a operational problem i am now having? any ideas?

Yeh try disabling the nvidia drivers and see what happens...or do you require them to play dvd's?

sorry i'm not quite sure, just trying to help...

Garry

will try your suggestion, thanks. got to be something giving me troulbe. sure would like to get the dvd player working.

disabled 3d accleration, still doesn,t play dvd,s. mplayer has played some online streaming video, i just don,t understand why it won,t play my dvds?

Have you tried xine...or any other DVD playing program?

This is a reply to your other thread...

Try playing around with all the options...it might not be the best advice...but if you wanna learn you have to hunt down your asnwer...try switching things on and off and see the effects...

or even easier..someone can tell you what to do

But yeh....hehe

Garry

ronss... please do not open a seperate thread for only a slightly different issue...

gtinc... why on earth have you answered that thread here? that's just stupid, and will get things in an even bigger mess. anyway...

sorry, just desperate to get my mplayer working. try not to do it again. do you have any other suggestions, i have done about everything i can in the video part of the preferences ?

so even when playing with this command line, it still gives jerky video, and all around poor quality:
mplayer -vo xv -framedrop -dvd 1

? (also to find and try more vo's do: mplayer -vo help and give each one a try)

What are you system specs?

Cool

yeh well acid, like you said it was slightly different and he could've just asked it in this thread, and if i replied in the other thread other people would've replied, when you could've just kept it to this thread and ronss could've deleted the other one....anyway sorry

Garry