using dvdnav with mplayer
 

Below is a quote from the mplayer documentation frequently asked questions, [URL="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#id2543934"]:

I can't watch any recent DVDs from Sony Pictures/BMG?
A:

It's normal, you've been ripped off and sold an intentionally defective disk. The only way to play these DVDs is to circumvent the bad blocks of the disk by using DVDnav instead of mpdvdkit2. You can do so by replacing dvd:// by dvdnav:// on the command line. DVDnav is so far mutually exclusive with mpdvdkit2, so make sure you pass --disable-mpdvdkit to the configure script.

They make it sound easy but I can't get it to recognize the dvdnav command though libdvdnav4 and -devel are installed.

I use: mplayer dvdnav:// as opposed to mplayer dvd:// just as the paragraph above suggests but it doesn't recognize it and I don't know what they mean by passing --disable-mpdvdkit to the configure script.

Can anyone straighten this out for me?

rock

A configure script is a program you run when you compile an application from source. From what you've said, it appears that you need to recompile mplayer and pass the option --disable-mpdvdkit to the configure script.