Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-2 Severity: normal According to mplayer news [1] it supports new way to play DVDs - mplayer dvdnav://. As per my understanding this means display of DVD menu. But even though Debian's mplayer package is created from a recent snapshot this functionality is not available.
Following error is seen when trying to use uri dvdnav:// ***************** on...@ibook:~$ mplayer -nocache dvdnav:// MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20100502-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team 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 dvdnav://. No stream found to handle url dvdnav:// Exiting... (End of file) ***************** It seems that mplayer is not built with dvdnav support (missing build-dep libdvdnav-dev). I did a local build with libdvdnav-dev added as build-dep and resulting mplayer package shows DVD menu. It will be great if this functionality was added in Debian package. [1] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages mplayer depends on: ii libaa1 1.4p5-38 ascii art library ii libartsc0 1.5.9-3+b1 aRts sound system C support librar ii libasound2 1.0.22-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libaudio2 1.9.2-3 Network Audio System - shared libr ii libavcodec52 4:0.5.1-3 ffmpeg codec library ii libavformat52 4:0.5.1-3 ffmpeg file format library ii libavutil49 4:0.5.1-3 ffmpeg utility library ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcaca0 0.99.beta17-1 colour ASCII art library ii libcdparanoia0 3.10.2+debian-9 audio extraction tool for sampling ii libdirectfb-1.2-9 1.2.10.0-3 direct frame buffer graphics - sha ii libdvdread4 4.1.3-9 library for reading DVDs ii libenca0 1.13-1 Extremely Naive Charset Analyser - ii libesd0 0.2.41-7 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-1 GCC support library ii libgif4 4.1.6-9 library for GIF images (library) ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.7.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libjack0 1.9.5~dfsg-13 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari ii libjpeg62 6b-16.1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liblircclient0 0.8.3-5 infra-red remote control support - ii liblzo2-2 2.03-2 data compression library ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libogg0 1.2.0~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library ii libopenal1 1:1.11.753-1 Software implementation of the Ope ii libpng12-0 1.2.43-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpostproc51 4:0.5.1-3 ffmpeg video postprocessing librar ii libpulse0 0.9.21-1 PulseAudio client libraries ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.14-6 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libsmbclient 2:3.4.7~dfsg-2 shared library for communication w ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libswscale0 4:0.5.1-3 ffmpeg video scaling library ii libtheora0 1.1.1+dfsg.1-3 The Theora Video Compression Codec ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii libxv1 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Video extension library ii libxvmc1 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Video extension library ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.1.1-2 X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.0-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime mplayer recommends no packages. Versions of packages mplayer suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library pn mplayer-doc <none> (no description available) pn netselect | fping <none> (no description available) ii ttf-freefont 20090104-7 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org