Mplayer Question

swingarm · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 6:42 pm Post subject: Mplayer Question

I'm currently using a DVD/CDRW combo drive in my Laptop. I'm currently using scsi emulation with my dvd drive linked to /dev/hdb. I start Mplayer with the command "mplayer -vo vx -gui -dvd-device /dev/hdb". It brings up Mplayer fine and I have a DVD entry in the menu but when I click on "open disc" nothing happens, no errors, nothing. I even mounted the drive before opening Mplayer and still got the same results, what am I doing wrong?

Kent

Zu` · l33t Joined: 26 May 2002 Posts: 716 Location: BE

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swingarm · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 7:37 pm Post subject:

Yep, DVD is compiled into Mplayer. I tried the command and I got the following error:

dr_strange · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 8:22 pm Post subject:

what if you refer to the drive as an scsi-device?

den_RDC · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:19 pm Post subject:

i think you should try /dev/sg0 or something like that

swingarm · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 11:41 pm Post subject:

Ok, seemed to me like it should've worked but it didn't. Below is a list of commands I tried:

mplayer -vo vx -gui -dvd-device /dev/sgo
mplayer -vo vx -gui -dvd-device /dev/sr0
mplayer -vo vx -gui -dvd-device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0

Those gave me the exact same results as 'mplayer -vo vx -gui -dvd-device /dev/hdb'. I also added '-dvd 1' and '-dvd 2' to each of the above command strings which resulted in Mplayer locking up.

Kent

Craigo · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 9:07 am Post subject:

Since you have got a combination drive....

Take a look in /etc/devfsd.conf and see if dvd is uncommented from the list. Make sure you are in some groups (/etc/groups to check permissions etc).

(If you did update devfsd.conf, do:

swingarm · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 2:28 pm Post subject:

I ran the command 'killall -HUP devfsd' and it didn't output anything...

Kent

Craigo · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 3:41 pm Post subject:

Bogo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 May 2002 Posts: 98

Have you tried ogle for playing DVDs? It plays them better than mplayer did for me (great support for menus and stuff).
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swingarm · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 11:45 pm Post subject:

I would use ogle if you can tell me how to enter arts into the USE= in make.conf so I can compile support arts support for ogle and how to configure oglerc for arts.

Kent