mplayer and libdvdnav...

vik · 05-13-2008, 12:34 AM

Hi, first I just wanted to say thanks for all the help I get on this forum. I have a quick question about mplayer and libdvdnav: why can't I see DVD menus? I went to www.slackbuilds.org and installed the mplayer-codec, libdvdnav, and finally mplayer. I noticed that mplayer found the dvd navigation library successfully, but I still can't see any menus on my DVDs. I didn't explicitly install libdvdread, so I shouldn't have the conflict problem. Any ideas?

ppr:kut · 05-13-2008, 01:55 AM

If you have libdvdnav installed, and not told mplayer to not use internal libdvdread, than you have support for both input streams. The default input-stream for dvds is dvd://, which is the old one without the menus. If you want to see the menus than you have to use the dvdnav:// input stream. But don't expect too much. DVD Navigation support in mplayer is in its early stages.

vik · 05-13-2008, 02:14 AM

I don't have a dvdnav link, so I guess I am having the conflict problem. Looking at your response to the thread here...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ight=libdvdnav

you say to remove libdvdread anywhere mplayer installed it. Will that break anything else like xine? After I do that, do I need to rebuild the mplayer package?

Alien Bob · 05-13-2008, 02:18 AM

If you want good DVD menu support, and don't want to use Xine, then I suggest you try VLC.

Eric

ppr:kut · 05-13-2008, 02:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vik

I don't have a dvdnav link, so I guess I am having the conflict problem. Looking at your response to the thread here...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ight=libdvdnav

you say to remove libdvdread anywhere mplayer installed it. Will that break anything else like xine? After I do that, do I need to rebuild the mplayer package?

If you do not have installed a package called libdvdread, than you do not have to remove anything. If you have installed libdvdnav before you compiled mplayer and saw something like this during configure:

Code:

Checking for DVD support (libdvdnav) ... yes

than your mplayer is configured to use libdvdnav. You can than see the menu with

Code:

gmplayer dvdnav://

but you won't be able to interact with it, ie click on it like in xine. You can (most likely) play the movie with

Code:

gmplayer dvdnav://1

If this doesn't work there's something wrong. Post the error message here, probably someone can help you.

andrew.46 · 05-13-2008, 07:18 AM

I compiled the svn mplayer with dvd navigation a while back but I suspect the method has not changed. The svn dvdnav is here:

Code:

svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/dvdnav/trunk/libdvdnav libdvdnav

and you will need to compile and install the source code. You will need to download and install libdvdread and libdvdcss and compile the svn mplayer with:

Code:

./configure --disable-dvdread-internal

and perhaps add the following to ~/.mplayer/config:

Code:

mouse-movements=yes

This was all a little while ago though so be a little cautious with these directions :-)

Andrew

vadkutya · 05-13-2008, 11:37 AM

besides: are the dvd menues of any importance? you can play a dvd with dvd:// or you can even play a .vob file. so why bother with menues?

vadkutya

vik · 05-13-2008, 12:50 PM

Thanks for all the responses. I'll try these out when I get home. The only reason I wanted DVD navigation is so I could view the extras. So mplayer doesn't really support DVD navigation but Xine and VLC player do? Maybe I'll try to get those working then.

T3slider · 05-13-2008, 01:45 PM

Xine has excellent DVD menu support (haven't tried VLC) and allows you to either click on menu items (or scroll using PageUp and PageDown, etc. I think) or it also has a DVD remote window, which allows you to navigate through menus just as if it were a real DVD player -- so you won't miss out on any extras or easter eggs.

digger95 · 05-13-2008, 01:52 PM

I agree Xine is quite nice, but unfortunately I also need mplayer/mencoder for devede 3.7 to work (it does a great job of authoring dvd's with menu support and subtitles). I don't usually like having redundant apps (i'm a clean freak with my system) but these two seem to play pretty well together. Why not just keep both?

vadkutya · 05-13-2008, 02:06 PM

Quote:

The only reason I wanted DVD navigation is so I could view the extras.

you kann skip through the tracks by giving dvd:// a numer other than 1. try dvd://[2...]. if this doesn't work you still can play the different vob files so you won't miss any extras

. all you miss is the fancy menu screen...

vadkutya