On 1/1/08, Mark Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hce <webmail.hce <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am using mplayer to watch DVD video movies. Some DVD can be > > displayed on the screen well, but others were displayed in a distorted > > picture with 3 columns repeated the same contents. Does anyone know > > what was that problem and how to fix it? > > > > I was using following command: > > > > mplayer -fs dvd:////media/INCONVENIENTTRUTH/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB > > First of all, you should be able to use a more simplified command line, > something like: > > mplayer -fs dvd:// > > should do it. You may have to specify a title number, start with mplayer -fs > dvd://1 and increase the number until something sensible happens. Hard to tell > you in advance which number to use, depends on the DVD. > > Now, to your problem. I think we first need to figure out if this is an > mplayer issue or an issue with the DVD itself. Try playing the DVD on a normal > player, or using another program like totem. Do you get the same effect? > > If so, it's a problem with the DVD. If the DVD is an original, bought copy, > you've either been ripped off or something has gone seriously screwy. If it's > a copy, that's what you get for trying to rip off the film company ;-) > > Now assuming other players play it OK, it's starting to sound like an mplayer > problem. It would be helpful to see the text output by mplayer when playing > the > DVD. > > If mplayer has a problem and so does some other software eg totem, but a > hardware DVD player has no problem with it, that implies problems with the DVD > reading libraries such as libdvdread and libdvdcss, in which case we are > starting to get out of my depth, but let us know what versions of these > libraries you have anyway...
Thanks Mark, I've just realized my DVD driver is DVD+R, that the DVD disk is DVD-R. Any tricks to play DVD-R disk on DVD+R driver? Thank you. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]