Mplayer

[Bogler]

I have just installed Mplayer.
I like the feel of it but i have some problems..

When i run mplayer -dvd 1

it says
MPlayer 0.90pre3-2.96 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel max cpuid level: 2
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Type: 6, Stepping: 6)
Testing OS support for SSE... yes.
Testing OS support for SSE unmasked exceptions... yes.
Tests of OS support for SSE passed.
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with features: MMX MMX2 SSE
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 34 audio & 91 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) config
Playing DVD title 1
libdvdread: Can't open libdvdcss: libdvdcss.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 13 titles on this DVD.
There are 33 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened!
header block 1 size: 0
Detected MPEG-PS file format!

it then takes ages to come back with an image which is crap, hard to make out anyhting and no sound at all.

Any mplayer gurus out there?

Thanks

Bogler

RH7.3
Celeron 850, 256MB, Nvidia 32MB RAM, latest kernel, i installed from rpm from freshrpms.net (for 7.3). Mplayer, dvdread and dvdcss files all installed.

[JimH]

Any mplayer gurus out there?

I don't even personally own a DVD drive. Don't have any experience with playing DVD's under linux at all.

Jim H

[Spot]

libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.

Unfortunately, open-source DVD UNencryption is "illegal" in this country. DeCSS is what it's known as, check out 2600.com about it sometime. I would suppose it's possible to get your hands on it, google would be my first stop.

[trommaster]

eric raymond has it on his site, http://tuxedo.org/~esr

[Bogler]

I though libdvdcss was meant to do the unencryption?

I have managed to get good ol Ogle working. Looks good and sounds good. I switched DMA on and it makes a big difference.

Strange with the Ogle gui though, i have the rpm, installed it, no errors or deps and when i start Ogle i never get a gui?

I had Ogle on 7.2 and it was always fine, gui wise.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Bogler

[SkyNet]

libdvdread: Can't open libdvdcss: libdvdcss.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.

This looks to be your problem.

Before you compile MPlayer, you should install libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz and libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz. This will allow you to play DVD with really good quality, and good speed. The speed comes from using the xv, mga, xmga driver.