On 07/27/2017 07:25 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:

On 07/27/2017 06:23 PM, Temlakos wrote:

I don't know how to use mplayer from the command line. I shudder to think of how
many switches and parameters I have to specify. Can you help with that?


Assuming you have a /dev/dvd it should be as simply as typing

mplayer dvd://

If you don't have a /dev/dvd then you may have to create a link to your dvd player to
make things easier

In my case, and in most cases, it would be

ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd

I would test for you....but my DVD drive is broken.

Just give that a try.  What could you lose?  You may even read the man page on
mplayer.  I've never had to give much in the way of other options unless I was doing
something "exotic".

FWIW, even though the laser in my DVD player is dead I still get....

[egreshko@acer ~]$ mplayer dvd://
MPlayer 1.3.0-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://.
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdread: Could not open input: No medium found
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd (No medium found)    <-----------You can't play
what you can't see....

How odd.

mplayer on command-line returns, at the end:

MPEG: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(

The vlc program gives me sound, but no picture--so no way to navigate the menu.

However, MakeMKV produces a good DVD video--sound and picture--exactly what I would expect.

The test disk is a studio-issued special edition of Fiddler on the Roof (1971), for Region 1.

Herewith the output of mplayer dvd:// (this after I created a soft link to device "sr0" per your suggestion):

mplayer dvd://
Creating config file: /home/Temlakos/.mplayer/config
MPlayer 1.3.0-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://.
There are 9 titles on this DVD.
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/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000149
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x0000027f
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00000289
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x0000029f
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x000002a4
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x00000328
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x00001306
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x00001c80
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x0000236b
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB at 0x0001675c
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x0001e1d0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB at 0x003d5daf
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 8 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.
audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 129.
number of audio channels on disk: 2.
subtitle ( sid ): 3 language: en
subtitle ( sid ): 4 language: fr
subtitle ( sid ): 5 language: es
number of subtitles on disk: 3

MPEG: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(


Exiting... (End of file)
[[censored] ~]$

Now what?

Temlakos