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10-14-2003, 05:50 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Pottsville, PA.
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 15
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mplayer and playing DVDs
I've got mplayer installed and for the most part it seems to be functioning correctly, except for when i try to play DVDs.
I'll start mplayer, then select Open>Play DVD
But i get this error:
"Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd"
I have no problems playin' .avi's or .mpg's that i've downloaded
I installed like this:
"Imagine a program that would install mplayer and all its dependencies for you automatically. That would be great wouldn't it? Well here it is... apt
Click on the RedHat 9 link(the first one on the page) and download:
apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm
and
apt-devel-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm.
Then as root do:
rpm -ivh apt*
apt-get update
apt-get install mplayer
Thx to Crashed_Again for the above install info...Any ideas here?
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10-14-2003, 06:24 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: San Deigo, CA
Distribution: FC3, Win2k Server, XP Pro & 2003 Server
Posts: 198
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make sure the to mount /dev/dvd0??
also you will need an interpreter like divix
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10-14-2003, 07:08 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Pottsville, PA.
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 15
Original Poster
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No DVD to mount, These are listed in fstab
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
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10-14-2003, 07:17 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: San Deigo, CA
Distribution: FC3, Win2k Server, XP Pro & 2003 Server
Posts: 198
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mount both /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1
it will one of them, pendind the order attached, you will still need a decoder such as Divix
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10-14-2003, 07:57 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: chikyuu (E103N6)
Distribution: Redhat 8.0 (2.4.25-custom), Fedora Core 1 (2.4.30-custom)
Posts: 357
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Why don't you try using mplayer from terminal? Open terminal window, type this:
mplayer -dvd-device /dev/cdrom -dvd 1 -vop pp=lb
If you're using mplayer 1.0 pre it should be:
mplayer -dvd-device /dev/cdrom dvd://1 -vop pp=lb
If not successful replace '/dev/cdrom' with '/dev/cdrom1'
That is what I think from your fstab file.
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10-14-2003, 09:27 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Pottsville, PA.
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 15
Original Poster
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Thank you
This line worked...
mplayer -dvd-device /dev/cdrom dvd://1 -vop pp=lb
Will i need to start it like this all the time? It's no big deal, i'd rather be able to start it up normally. Also, cuz of startin mplayer that way i have no control panel, except for keyboard shortcuts, took some guess to figure those out. No biggie i guess
Thanks again
Oh nevermind on guessin the keyboard shortcuts, i noticed them in terminal, my bad?
Last edited by RKY60; 10-14-2003 at 09:31 PM.
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10-14-2003, 09:30 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Silly Con Valley
Distribution: Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat 9.0
Posts: 2,054
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if you want to start it without all those flags, create a link to your dvd device. ie.
if your dvd device is /dev/cdrom, use this command as root:
ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd
by default, mplayer and xine look for /dev/dvd and you do not have to mount your dvd device manually to play a dvd movie.
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10-14-2003, 09:33 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Pottsville, PA.
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 15
Original Poster
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Wow thanks, that worked to, ya'll are good
Thanks again
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