Oops, my bad. Like the error message says, '-dvd' needs a parameter, namely, the DVD title. i.e.,
# mplayer -dvd 1
Sorry about that... 'man mplayer'
Also, I highly recommend upgrading your MPlayer... Many, many fixes have been made since pre6...
Hi Karol, this is what I get, I guess I will need to re-compile mplayer as it seem to have too many problem trying to play DVD :( any easy way to compile the latest mplayer? I tried in 8.0pro previously but failed to get it to work :( Thank you :) Dennis dennis@p3866:~> mplayer -dvd 1 Using GNU internationalization Original domain: messages Original dirname: /usr/share/locale Current domain: mplayer Current dirname: /usr/share/locale MPlayer 0.90pre6-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 3) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with RUNTIME CPU Detection - warning, it's not optimal! To get best performance, recompile mplayer from sources with --disable-runtime-cpudetection Reading /home/dennis/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/dennis/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 104 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/dennis/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (204 chars) Linux RTC init error: Permission denied Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/dennis/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Input config file /etc/input.conf parsed : 50 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device Can't init input joystick Setting up lirc support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: Permission denied Failed opening lirc support! You won't be able to use your remote control Playing DVD title 1 libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.2 for DVD access Reading disc structure, please wait... There are 2 titles on this DVD. There are 1 chapters in this DVD title. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x0000013a libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x000001a6 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 DVD successfully opened! Detected MPEG-PS file format! VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.00 fps 8750.0 kbps (1093.8 kbyte/s) Detected audio codec: [a52] afm:14 (AC3-liba52) Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=14) not available (enable it at compile time!) Couldn't initialize audio codec! -> nosound ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES) Couldn't find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale... Opening video filter: [scale] Sorry, selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0 libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [sdl] 720x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12 Disabling DPMS SDL: Using driver: x11 Detected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:1 (MPEG 1 or 2) ========================================================================== Audio: no sound!!! Start playing... V: 9.9 238 33% 4% 0.0% 0 0 0% No bind found for key MOUSE_BTN0 V: 32.2 796 34% 6% 0.0% 0 0 0% ------ PAUSED -------