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McSlack · 10-22-2008, 10:09 AM

Thanks for the tips on mplayer. I'm going to check them out.

Tip of the hat to T3slider the latest ATI "fglrx" driver fixed my video issues. Previously my xorg.conf was using the "radeon" driver.

Since /dev/dvd1 is just a symbolic link to your DVD can't you just make /dev/dvd a symbolic link to the same drive? All my /dev/dvd* are symbolic links to /dev/hda.

w1k0 · 10-22-2008, 02:06 PM

Frankly I'm not accustomed to all those magical devices in kernel 2.6. Slackware 12.1 is my first system with such kernel. Kernel prepares all devices during boot procedures. Almost all of them have the same date and time of creation. I don't know if I can put in /dev directory my own permanent links. Of course I can put there anything but I don't know if it's a proper way to handle 2.6 kernel's devices.

To manage with both T40 (/dev/dvd) and T60 (/dev/dvd1) I wrote simple script named dvd...

dvd:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

echo "dvd [title slang alang]"

if [ -e /dev/dvd ]
then
    DVD=/dev/dvd
elif [ -e /dev/dvd1 ]
then
    DVD=/dev/dvd1
fi

if [ "$DVD" == "" ]
then
    echo "There is no /dev/dvd nor /dev/dvd1 device..."
    exit
fi

if [ "$1" == "" ]
then
    mplayer -dvd-device $DVD -dvd-speed 1 dvd://1
elif [ "$2" == "" ]
then
    mplayer -dvd-device $DVD -dvd-speed 1 dvd://$1
elif [ "$3" == "" ]
then
    mplayer -slang $2 -dvd-device $DVD -dvd-speed 1 dvd://$1
elif [ "$4" == "" ]
then
    mplayer -alang $3 -slang $2 -dvd-device $DVD -dvd-speed 1 dvd://$1
fi

To play movie I run the command dvd. To play third title from DVD with English subtitles and French audio language I use the command dvd 3 en fr. On most DVDs movie is the first title but on some it's the second, the third, etc. title.

w1k0 · 10-22-2008, 02:33 PM

I just simplified my script...

dvd-new:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

echo "$0 [title slang alang]"

for device in dvd dvd1
do
    if [ -e /dev/$device ]; then DEVICE="-dvd-device /dev/$device"; fi
done

if [ "$DEVICE" == "" ]
then
    echo "There is no /dev/dvd* device..."
    exit
fi

if [ "$1" != "" ]; then TITLE=$1; fi

if [ "$2" != "" ]; then SUBTITLES="-slang $2"; fi

if [ "$3" != "" ]; then LANGUAGE="-alang $3"; fi

mplayer $LANGUAGE $SUBTITLES $DEVICE -dvd-speed 1 dvd://$TITLE