Another how to play dvd's question

bunnyknight13 · 06-22-2005, 02:03 PM

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----

ctkroeker · 06-22-2005, 02:09 PM

Try XMMS or a different player maybe.

bunnyknight13 · 06-23-2005, 11:01 AM

totem won't work
how do I use xmms?

reddazz · 06-23-2005, 12:04 PM

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

bunnyknight13 · 06-24-2005, 12:03 PM

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

reddazz · 06-24-2005, 01:23 PM

Have you tried using xine?

samael26 · 06-24-2005, 01:50 PM

Quote :

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

Perhaps you should re-install mplayer..

lowpingnoob · 06-24-2005, 07:45 PM

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

reddazz · 06-25-2005, 02:20 AM

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.

lowpingnoob · 06-26-2005, 01:18 PM

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.

bunnyknight13 · 06-26-2005, 07:33 PM

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