DVD Player

PhuckFonix · 07-04-2004, 11:35 AM

I have a DVD from Germany and I live in America. I have VLC Media Player (libdvdcss2 libdvdplay0 wxvlc vlc-plugin-a52 vlc-plugin-ogg vlc-plugin-ma).

I try to pick the play file option but there is not file under the mount directory. I went to MDK Control Center 10 -> Hardware ->DVD-ROM information and this is my information: Bus: IDE; Drive capacity: DVD; Channel: secondary; New devfs device: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/traget1/lun0/cd; Old device file: /dev/hdd; Media class cdrom;

I picked lpay file option changed the box to /dev/hdd and tried VCD, DVD(menu), DVD(test), and DVD but they did not work.

What is the matter?

LavaDevil94 · 07-04-2004, 12:02 PM

You should try MPlayer:
http://mplayerhq.hu
Download the source, compile with ./configure --enable-gui, make, and make install as root, then use this command to run your DVD:
mplayer dvd://1

PhuckFonix · 07-04-2004, 12:14 PM

My process is .535ghz btw haha, but, anyways, the player failed my DVD device is either /dev/hdd or /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd:

Code:

$ mplayer dvd://1

MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Celeron A Mendocino/Pentium II Dixon 2609 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 5)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/user/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/user/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/user/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 169 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/user/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
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 startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/user/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
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: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd


Exiting... (End of file)

LavaDevil94 · 07-04-2004, 12:27 PM

/dev/hdd is your DVD drive, right? Try this command as root:
ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/dvd
Then try MPlayer again.

PhuckFonix · 07-04-2004, 01:16 PM

Hmm,

Code:

# ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/dvd
ln: `/dev/dvd': File exists

LavaDevil94 · 07-04-2004, 01:32 PM

Try this command and post the output:
ls -l /dev/dvd

PhuckFonix · 07-04-2004, 01:41 PM

Code:

$ ls -l /dev/dvd
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 30 Jul  4 10:01 /dev/dvd -> ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd
ls -l /dev/hdd
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 30 Jul  4 10:01 /dev/hdd -> ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd

LavaDevil94 · 07-04-2004, 01:44 PM

Hmm... it's getting more complicated... Try this command and post output:
ls /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0

PhuckFonix · 07-04-2004, 01:48 PM

Code:

ls /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0
cd

LavaDevil94 · 07-04-2004, 01:57 PM

Is that DVD drive your only CD-ROM drive?

PhuckFonix · 07-04-2004, 02:17 PM

It's hdd. No. I have Primary, Slave HDs: hda, hdb; primary CD-ROM 52x24x54 hdc and DVD 16x or 8x Mit/Mat-something drive hdd. It's the second device of the second cable so that makes it fourth.

LavaDevil94 · 07-04-2004, 02:43 PM

Can you post the output of dmesg?

Electro · 07-04-2004, 03:53 PM

Sometimes I get:

Quote:

Playing dvd://1.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd

What I do is close mplayer and eject the DVD. Then I insert the DVD. Next I open up mplayer. I repeat this a few times. Ogle does the same. It does work. Sometimes it just works on the first try.

DVD works only if you set the region in the DVD drive. You can not play DVDs that are not region 1. I do not know what region is Germany in. If your DVD drive is region free, it can play any region that you want. Search the internet for region free firmware for you DVD drive.

The ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd is just devfs to designate drives.

PhuckFonix · 07-05-2004, 10:56 AM

I remember having the ability to change regions on Windows. I can change the regions five times. The DVD is probably region 2 and I'm probably region 1. I tried your method with mplayer and it didn't work. My DVD drive name starts with an Ma or Mi and came with a Hewlette-Packard 8650C. I also have a PS2 and my roomate has an XBox.

Where can I find this firmware? What is my DVD drive's name?