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first: I've looked through the forums allready

I've gotten some dvd's to work with my computer(mandriva le2005 w/mplayer) but most of my dvd's wont work.
my output when trying to play one of these dvd's:

Code:

[pj@localhost ~]$ mplayer dvd://1

MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 3)

Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes

CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0

Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!

To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.





77 audio & 188 video codecs

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 startupscripts.

Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0

Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory

Can't init input joystick

Setting up LIRC support...

mplayer: could not connect to socket

mplayer: No such file or directory

Failed to open LIRC support.

You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://1.

libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.

libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading

Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd





Exiting... (End of file)

dma is set to 1 and the permissions for /dev/dvd is brw-rw----

Try XMMS or a different player maybe.

totem won't work
how do I use xmms?

It seems to be an issue with your permissions. Try changing the permissions for /dev/dvd and give world readable permissions e.g.

Code:

#chmod a+r /dev/dvd

chmoded dvd and hdd (dvd points to hdd) and it still wont work

Have you tried using xine?

Quote :

mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory

Perhaps you should re-install mplayer..

i dont know, but does windows media player or the like (powerDVD) work in wine? sorry I cannot help, but this might inadvertantly help.

Quote:

Originally posted by lowpingnoob
i dont know, but does windows media player or the like (powerDVD) work in wine? sorry I cannot help, but this might inadvertantly help.

You don't really need to run a windows app to play dvds. There are many alternatives to mplayer, e.g. xine (which can be used alongside totem and kaffeine frontends), videolan and ogle.

Quote:

Originally posted by reddazz
You don't really need to run a windows app to play dvds. There are many alternatives to mplayer, e.g. xine (which can be used alongside totem and kaffeine frontends), videolan and ogle.

yeah, but I used wine to install PowerDVD and it works. That is my normal DVD app, so I am perfectly happy with it.

totem uses the same lib's as xine, so wouldn't it be futile
I'll try to find an old win32 dvdplayer yet I've not had to touch windows since leaving school