No Dvd Playback / Output On Mplayer ?

I have an IBM T61 with Novell SUSE Linux 10.1 installed on it from the factory.

I was able to setup access to the repositories, and I have tried installing MPlayer and Kaffeine, and still cannot get DVD Playback.

MPlayer displays "No Stream Found to Handle URL DVD://1"

Any thoughts ?


Vaughn Elliott II
Research Assistant
Applied Economics
Auburn University
Auburn AL 36830

I have an IBM T61 with Novell SUSE Linux 10.1 installed on it from the factory.

I was able to setup access to the repositories, and I have tried installing MPlayer and Kaffeine, and still cannot get DVD Playback.

MPlayer displays "No Stream Found to Handle URL DVD://1"

Any thoughts ?
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Have you enabled the VideoLan Repository? If so, you'll need to install at least two additional files: libdvdcss and w32codec-all.

Good luck.

Have you enabled the VideoLan Repository? If so, you'll need to install at least two additional files: libdvdcss and w32codec-all.

Good luck.
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I had everything listed by you(and in other threads) except for the VideoLan Repository and libdvdcss. I couldn't find libdvdcss anywhere, and I didn't know the URL off hand.

While I was testing a CD to see if it was causing an error in reading, I noticed that my DVD's name to the system is hda.

MPlayer thought it's name was scd1, so when I went to preferences and replaced "scd1" with hda, I had playback on my DVD's.

The only that doesn't work is menus, but who cares, because it's a breeze to navigate through the chapters.

Thanks very much for your response, and thanks very much to the owners of this fine forum.

-Vaughn

I couldn't find libdvdcss anywhere, and I didn't know the URL off hand. [/b]

I think videolan repos has libdvdcss2. Having typed that, there are a few ways you can do this with repos (probably more) .... for example:
a. add videolan to your repos (and not packman);
b. add packman to your repos (and not videolan);
c. add both packman and video lan to your repos.

I prefer option-b, as I like packman more than videolan, and sometimes videolan and packman rpms have conflicts with each other. Others prefer option-a (liking videolan more than packman, and want to avoid the videolan-packman conflicts), and some prefer option-c and those users (who prefer option-c) are willing to put up with the occasional conflict between packman and videolan.

In my case, since I use packman in my repos (and not videolan), and since packman does not have libdvdcss2, I install libdvdcss2 with the following command (distribution version independant):

su -c "rpm -Uvh http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/rpm/libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm"

entering root password when prompted.