(S)MPlayer doesn't play DVD's.

dirkd · posted: 2015-07-21 22:18

Hi,

Some trouble with gnome-mplayer playing DVD's. I installed the necessary extra's, then, seeing DVD's were not opening, I installed VLC. VLC worked right away, as expected. Then I tried opening a VOB-file directly. MPlayer showed garbled video and produced garbled sound. But I could recognise the DVD being played.

The last thing I tried was opening mplayer from a terminal window. That way I could start the DVD, with flawless sound and video, but since I didn't get DVD menu's, I only saw the introduction for about 30 seconds or so, after which mplayer exited gracefully. This is the output of the succesful run of mplayer:

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$ mplayer -vo xv /dev/sr0
Warning unknown option stopxscreensaver at line 5
MPlayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-4+b1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Cannot open file '/home/dd/.mplayer/input.conf': No such file or directory
Failed to open /home/dd/.mplayer/input.conf.
Cannot open file '/ etc/mplayer/input.conf': No such file or directory
Failed to open / etc/mplayer/input.conf.

Playing /dev/sr0.
Detected file format: MPEG-PS
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  7000.0 kbps (875.0 kbyte/s)
Load subtitles in /dev/
[ass] auto-open
Selected video codec: MPEG-2 video [libavcodec]
[ac3 @ 0xb69b2100]frame sync error
Selected audio codec: ATSC A/52A (AC-3) [libavcodec]
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 256.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 32000->384000)
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VIDEO:  720x576  25.000 fps  7000.0 kbps (875.0 kB/s)
Aspect ratio is 1.78:1 - scaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12 
A:  21.5 V:   3.0 A-V: 18.464 ct:  0.308 599/599  2%  1% 16.1% 0 0 
Invalid command for bound key 'MOUSE_BTN0': 'dvdnav mouse'
A:  21.5 V:   8.3 A-V: 13.184 ct:  0.836 731/731  2%  1% 32.1% 0 0 
Exiting... (End of file)

I then tried the same with gnome-mplayer (starting it from a terminal window). I then tried opening a VOB from gnome-mplayer's menu, without seeing anything. The output didn't make me any wizer:

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$ gnome-mplayer

** (gnome-mplayer:13623): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
GMLIB-Message: after init: position=0.000 length=0.000 start_time=0.000 run_time=0.000 volume=0.00 player=dead media=unknown uri=

(gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1173 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1174 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1175 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1173 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1175 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1174 was not found when attempting to remove it
dd@dokux:~

Any ideas? Since I can use VLC this is not the most important problem. However, I like mplayer a lot (and SMPlayer even more). On my ubuntu installation on the same hardware SMPlayer has no problem at all with DVD's. So it is possible.

skidoo · posted: 2015-07-22 03:42

dirkd, check it out ----v

file:///usr/share/antiX/FAQ/index.html#_post_installation

DVD videos don’t play. How come?

You will need to install libdvdcss2 and maybe some codecs by enabling the deb-multimedia repository
(see above how to do this) and then either search for libdvdcss2 in synaptic and then install or use the command line.

apt-get update

apt-get install libdvdcss2

Alternatively, use the meta-installer application.

antiX strongly advises users not to keep the deb-multimedia repository enabled as there may be conflicts.

dear mods: the more appropriate subforum for this thread is general/newUsers.

dirkd · posted: 2015-07-22 07:42

I HAVE libdvdcss2 (version 1.3.0.dmo1 - I have some misgivings about that dmo1 at the end). And since I CAN play DVD content, directly with the mplayer executable from a terminal window, I assumed that my basic setup was correct. As I understand it, both gnome-mplayer and SMPlayer are just graphical frontends to mplayer, so I'm searching for some kind of mismatch there. Sorry if I chose the wrong subforum for this question.

skidoo · posted: 2015-07-22 15:13

Ultimately, if solved, best subforum would be tips-n-tricks.
Hopefully a helpful monkey reading"Hardware" will chime in.
(more helpful than me. I have zero/zilch/none of them newfangled spinny DVD disks.)

fatmac · posted: 2015-07-22 16:46

If you can play a DVD OK from the mplayer command, it looks like a problem with your front end to me.
Certain VOB files just contain bits of info or menus, once you find the actual video VOB, it should run OK.

dirkd · posted: 2015-07-22 19:32

Now I do feel foolish (alas, not for the first time, alas (x2) probably not for the last time either). It seems DVD playback was working after all (except for menu's, but who cares, and I may still work that out later on). Both Gnome-mplayer and SMPlayer work fine.

My bad luck: out of maybe 200+ DVD's here at home that I could have tried I pick out that one disk that has issues on a PC. In my defense I can say that same disk never gave any trouble in my stand-alone DVD player.

Kudo's to VLC that has no problem playing even that troublesome disk.

fatmac · posted: 2015-07-23 08:14

Oh well, all's well that ends well. __{{emoticon}}__