Mplayer, Ogle, DVDs...

[nbensa]

Hello,

Does anyone know if DVD playback is broken in mplayer?

I was trying to get DVD playback with mplayer but I only can see squares (noise.) My solution was to emerge ogle, but I'd like to use mplayer instead.

BTW: mplayer 0.90_pre8-r1

Thanks in advance,
Norberto

[fbleagh]

ITs working fine for me, and im using pre10
I tend to have more luck with mplayer than Gmplayer

btw make sure DVD use variable is in your make.conf


btw another good DVD player is Xine - worth playing with.

[nbensa]

Yup! I forgot to tell I HAVE dvd in USE But still no luck with mplayer (pre6, pre8 and pre10)

And about xine. I've just emerged it. It has more options but sound is choppy. I'll stick with ogle for now.

Thanks for answer!!

Norberto

[Pigeon]

What command are you using to run mplayer? What output plugin(s) are you using?

[nbensa]

[fbleagh]

hmmm do you have alsa installed ??
if so then try

mplayer -ao alsa9 -vo xv -dvd 1

the -vo xv set video output via xv ( X11/Xv ) which bypasses the standard X outout and writes stright to the vid card

the -ao alsa9 sets audio output via the ALSA audio drivers ( if setup )

or try these other audio options
oss OSS/ioctl audio output
arts aRts audio output ( this is for KDE )
null Null audio output
alsa9 ALSA-0.9.x audio output
sdl SDLlib audio output
mpegpes Mpeg-PES audio output
pcm RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output
plugin Plugin audio output

BTW I think re-emerging libmepeg2 wouldn't hurt either

[nbensa]

Thanks, but I did another thing.

I edited the ebuild, and --disable-mpdvdkit. This way, mplayer is forced to use the system libdvdcss and libdvdread instead of the ones shipped with mplayer.

Now I can see my DVD with mplayer!!!!