-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 December 2001 6:51 pm, Matt wrote: > Alan, > > mplayer still relies on some win32 codecs -- these will soon be replaced > by linux native/gpl'ed codecs. Is that what you're talking about? If > it's only dvd that's not working, you probably need libcss (the > supposedly illegal library) to play it. You can grab all of this.. or > at least tips on where to find it.. at the mplayer site mentioned below. > I do have libcss and libdvdread
I need to use mplayer -dvd 1 rather than -vcd 2 It was with a dvd - it now works as far as playing what I assume is the first .vob file and then stops with end of file. (logged in as normal user with cdrom group rights) > Try running mplayer as root when reading a dvd -- if it works, at least > you know where to start fixing. I'm pretty sure yours is a problem of > css decrypting, though...s Ahh - now the movie seems to play past the first end of file - I think this must be a permissions problem - someone has said add write access to the dvd device - I will have to look into this. > > cheers, > Matt > > On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 21:44, Alan Chandler wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Saturday 15 December 2001 3:24 pm, Matt wrote: > > > Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not in > > > the debian testing dist. > > > > > > get it here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu > > > > I got it, configured and compiled it and tried to run it to play a dvd > > disk. > > > > It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a > > file mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas. > > > > - -- > > > > Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > > > iD4DBQE8G/xq1mf3M5ZDr2kRAljlAJdI1J14Y58klmALHMGiRPiRFmIAAJ9MKRtK > > i6tQ65JRW+gzhGH3oTdLgw== > > =Cesj > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8HoOM1mf3M5ZDr2kRAj7+AJ92TlnawRWrFnxk0bGzZjbtnLKRwQCeKzAq p3o6MlIxNyGkTl1dh1CxsDw= =Ptzg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----