dvd with mplayer help needed

dvd with mplayer help needed

[Scott Howell]

I've asked someone about this, but if anyone has any other comments, 
suggestions etc. I'll gladdly take them.

I got myself a dvd burner, Plexstor. I got it at such a great deal I 
couldn't pass it up. I'd like to be able to play dvd discs on it 
especially those I have that has the audio described track.
I can mount the disc fine, but then I tried using mplayer such as 
mplayer -vo null filename.vob and that crashed the box. Got some message 
about bad sectors or something, but I couldn't tell as the box hung 
nicely. The disc plays fine on a regular dvd machine.
Is there something else I need to do? Maybe your not to mount the thing 
perhaps. I'd also like to make copies of dvd discs of course for my own 
personal use. It seems a good idea when my seven- year-old occationally 
has managed to mess one up, but luckily this isn't offten. Ay I know he 
aut not be touching them, but well that's another topic.
Also I'd like to consolidate my music collection on to a dvd and suspect 
its a matter of making an iso image and burning that to the dvd media.
So any thoughts on what to do in playing movie tracks etc. and is 
cdrecord is good for this burining job is appreciated.

tia
Scott

Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi scott.

To play a dvd with mplayer, don't mount it. Instead, run mplayer like:

mplayer dvd://x

, where x is the track you want to play (0, 1, 2, ETC.). You also need
to setup a soft link to your dvd device in /dev, but I've forgotten
what that is, have a look at the man page for mplayer to get that
info.

Greg


On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:46:38AM -0500, Scott Howell wrote:
> I've asked someone about this, but if anyone has any other comments, 
> suggestions etc. I'll gladdly take them.
> 
> I got myself a dvd burner, Plexstor. I got it at such a great deal I 
> couldn't pass it up. I'd like to be able to play dvd discs on it 
> especially those I have that has the audio described track.
> I can mount the disc fine, but then I tried using mplayer such as 
> mplayer -vo null filename.vob and that crashed the box. Got some message 
> about bad sectors or something, but I couldn't tell as the box hung 
> nicely. The disc plays fine on a regular dvd machine.
> Is there something else I need to do? Maybe your not to mount the thing 
> perhaps. I'd also like to make copies of dvd discs of course for my own 
> personal use. It seems a good idea when my seven- year-old occationally 
> has managed to mess one up, but luckily this isn't offten. Ay I know he 
> aut not be touching them, but well that's another topic.
> Also I'd like to consolidate my music collection on to a dvd and suspect 
> its a matter of making an iso image and burning that to the dvd media.
> So any thoughts on what to do in playing movie tracks etc. and is 
> cdrecord is good for this burining job is appreciated.
> 
> tia
> Scott
> 
> 
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Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[David Bruzos]

Hi:
I will quickly tell you what I have found about dvd-playing and dvd-burning in Linux, below:

To play DVD's:
	Yeah, mplayer is simply the best for this task.  As Greg said before, something like:
	$ mplayer -quiet dvd://1
		Where dvd://1 just tells mplayer what title to play.  The first title (1) is usually the main movie.
	If you don't care about the video part of the movie:
			$ mplayer -quiet -vo null dvd://1
	To play the first title, the second language (French) and use the x11 display do:
			$ mplayer -quiet -vo xv -alang fr dvd://1

	This should get you started...

To burn/shrink dvd's:
	I have had reasonable luck with the fallowing programs:
	1. streamdvd/streamanalyze
	2. dvdauthor
	3. mkisofs
	4. cdrecord

	You have to use them in the order listed above.  Read some docs for more info.

	Two other very useful programs are: "transcode" and "vobcopy".  They will help you with other aspects of the DVD 
	burning process.

To burn data DVD's:
	Yeah, all you have to do is make an ISO image and use cdrecord to burn to disc.  The same old way you use to burn 
	CD's.  One thing though, you have to use the "-dao" option for cdrecord when burning and fix the disc after you 
	are done writing to it.  Another program to look at is "growisofs"., it will easy let you create data DVD's 
	on the fly.  The maximum size for a DVD ISO is around 4450 MB or 4700000000 bytes.

HTH!

David Bruzos

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:46:38AM -0500, Scott Howell wrote:
> I've asked someone about this, but if anyone has any other comments, 
> suggestions etc. I'll gladdly take them.
> 
> I got myself a dvd burner, Plexstor. I got it at such a great deal I 
> couldn't pass it up. I'd like to be able to play dvd discs on it 
> especially those I have that has the audio described track.
> I can mount the disc fine, but then I tried using mplayer such as 
> mplayer -vo null filename.vob and that crashed the box. Got some message 
> about bad sectors or something, but I couldn't tell as the box hung 
> nicely. The disc plays fine on a regular dvd machine.
> Is there something else I need to do? Maybe your not to mount the thing 
> perhaps. I'd also like to make copies of dvd discs of course for my own 
> personal use. It seems a good idea when my seven- year-old occationally 
> has managed to mess one up, but luckily this isn't offten. Ay I know he 
> aut not be touching them, but well that's another topic.
> Also I'd like to consolidate my music collection on to a dvd and suspect 
> its a matter of making an iso image and burning that to the dvd media.
> So any thoughts on what to do in playing movie tracks etc. and is 
> cdrecord is good for this burining job is appreciated.
> 
> tia
> Scott
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[Scott Howell]

Thanks for all the great info. I will have to look for some docs to 
rtfm. I had found some once, but couldn't put my hands on them, but I'm 
sure I'll find them yet again. Thanks again.

Scott

Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[seth creature]

Hi all, I do have some dvd's but I'm not running debian yet... after a bad 
install went back to slackware for now till I can devote another box to 
debian.  So my qwestion is, is there a dvd playing dvd's?
Thnx bunches...
Cheereo!

debian error when upgrading kernel-image-24.27-speakup

[Lutz Kaiser]

Hi,
i'm very sad, as usual i made apt-get update ; followed ap-get upgrade.
There was also a new version from the speakup kernelimage. Bu it coudln't be
installed.
there was the following error:
usr/sbin/mkinitr 1359 mkx2fs command not found, errornumber 9 ...

So now my System isn't speaking anymore, I tried it booting with another
Kernel, this works but no way to get speach, only braile, but i read so
slow...

Any hints? Many thanks in advance.
regards
Lutz,
p.s: please note i very new to linux 2 month <smile)

Re: debian error when upgrading kernel-image-24.27-speakup

[Lutz Kaiser]

hi all,
i forgot to mention, removing an installing have i tried afterwards with no
success.
or did that has been a windows-workaround?
regards
Lutz,

Re: debian error when upgrading kernel-image-24.27-speakup

[Sean McMahon]

What is your boot loader?  Let it make an initrd image then don't install in the
primary boot block.  Before rebooting, make sure your links to /vmlinuz and/or
/vmlinuz.old still work.  I'm beginning to think they should use
the --append-to-version tag and add like a -2 or something to keep the kernel a
different version so you can have the option to use or test or not.  Of course
that deviates a little from how the upgrade process, but that's what the docs
will tell when you're compiling your own kernel.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lutz Kaiser" <lutz.kaiser@gmx.net>
To: "Lutz Kaiser" <lutz.kaiser@gmx.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for
Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: debian error when upgrading kernel-image-24.27-speakup


> hi all,
> i forgot to mention, removing an installing have i tried afterwards with no
> success.
> or did that has been a windows-workaround?
> regards
> Lutz,
>
>
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Re: debian error when upgrading kernel-image-24.27-speakup

[Sean McMahon]

I don't know.    To others on the list, this person had problems upgrading the
speakup kernel image in debian and can not successfully re-configure or
re-install the speakup kernel image.  Could you also explain to the list when
you are getting the error?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lutz Kaiser" <lutz.kaiser@gmx.net>
To: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@usgs.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: debian error when upgrading kernel-image-24.27-speakup


> Hi Sean,
> it seams to be another kind of error.
> in /use/sbin there is no mkext2fs file, so mkinitrd  says command not found.
> i've seen such a file in the net, but just as text and  i'm now trying to
> copy it to linux.
>
> if by any chance you know an url for downlading this file i'ld be happy.
> many thanks
> Lutz!
>

Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[Scott Howell]

Ay got  a quick question. I tried running mplayer for the first title of 
the dvd and I got the following error.
Playing DVD title 1
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd

I tried creatign a symlink to /dev/hdc which is the dvd burner, but no 
luck. Any suggestions here?
I looked at the makedev script and I couldn't find anything, but for 
something for pktcdvd, but didn't think that was the ticket.

tnx
>Hi:
>I will quickly tell you what I have found about dvd-playing and dvd-burning in
 Linux, below:
>
>To play DVD's:
>	Yeah, mplayer is simply the best for this task.  As Greg said before, s
omething like:
>	$ mplayer -quiet dvd://1
>		Where dvd://1 just tells mplayer what title to play.  The first
 title (1) is usually the main movie.
>	If you don't care about the video part of the movie:
>			$ mplayer -quiet -vo null dvd://1
>	To play the first title, the second language (French) and use the x11 d
isplay do:
>			$ mplayer -quiet -vo xv -alang fr dvd://1
>
>	This should get you started...
>
>To burn/shrink dvd's:
>	I have had reasonable luck with the fallowing programs:
>	1. streamdvd/streamanalyze
>	2. dvdauthor
>	3. mkisofs
>	4. cdrecord
>
>	You have to use them in the order listed above.  Read some docs for mor
e info.
>
>	Two other very useful programs are: "transcode" and "vobcopy".  They wi
ll help you with other aspects of the DVD 
>	burning process.
>
>To burn data DVD's:
>	Yeah, all you have to do is make an ISO image and use cdrecord to burn 
to disc.  The same old way you use to burn 
>	CD's.  One thing though, you have to use the "-dao" option for cdrecord
 when burning and fix the disc after you 
>	are done writing to it.  Another program to look at is "growisofs"., it
 will easy let you create data DVD's 
>	on the fly.  The maximum size for a DVD ISO is around 4450 MB or 470000
0000 bytes.
>
>HTH!
>
>David Bruzos
>
>On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:46:38AM -0500, Scott Howell wrote:
>> I've asked someone about this, but if anyone has any other comments, 
>> suggestions etc. I'll gladdly take them.
>> 
>> I got myself a dvd burner, Plexstor. I got it at such a great deal I 
>> couldn't pass it up. I'd like to be able to play dvd discs on it 
>> especially those I have that has the audio described track.
>> I can mount the disc fine, but then I tried using mplayer such as 
>> mplayer -vo null filename.vob and that crashed the box. Got some message 
>> about bad sectors or something, but I couldn't tell as the box hung 
>> nicely. The disc plays fine on a regular dvd machine.
>> Is there something else I need to do? Maybe your not to mount the thing 
>> perhaps. I'd also like to make copies of dvd discs of course for my own 
>> personal use. It seems a good idea when my seven- year-old occationally 
>> has managed to mess one up, but luckily this isn't offten. Ay I know he 
>> aut not be touching them, but well that's another topic.
>> Also I'd like to consolidate my music collection on to a dvd and suspect 
>> its a matter of making an iso image and burning that to the dvd media.
>> So any thoughts on what to do in playing movie tracks etc. and is 
>> cdrecord is good for this burining job is appreciated.
>> 
>> tia
>> Scott
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[Adam Myrow]

Check your permissions on your DVD drive.  If it is owned by a group like 
CDROM, or DVD, you could add your login to that group.  Or, if you want to 
take the easy way out, you could set the device to have 666 permissions. 
Of course, if others access your box remotely, that might not be such a 
good idea.

Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[Scott Howell]

Thanks, I tried adding myself to the cdrom and disk group with no luck. 
The difference between being root and myself as a user I get the 
following error as just a user.

Playing DVD title 1
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd

Now my drive is /dev/hdc which is part of the disk group and I created a 
symlink to this device as cdrom and dvd. I still get the above error 
despite the fact I've added myself to both groups and I did logout of 
the current console and log back in.
I'm not sure whatelse to do here. I can mount discs on this device so 
its apparently functioning just fine.
Any other thoughts appreciated. Oh another thing, I tried specifying 
-dvd-device as /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd with the same above 
error message accept the only difference is that the device name it 
couldn't open would match what I put on the command line.

tia
Scott

Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[Tom Moore]

Did you log out and then log back in after changing the /etc/group file?

Tom

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:07:56AM -0500, Scott Howell wrote:
> Thanks, I tried adding myself to the cdrom and disk group with no luck. 
> The difference between being root and myself as a user I get the 
> following error as just a user.
> 
> Playing DVD title 1
> libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
> 
> Now my drive is /dev/hdc which is part of the disk group and I created a 
> symlink to this device as cdrom and dvd. I still get the above error 
> despite the fact I've added myself to both groups and I did logout of 
> the current console and log back in.
> I'm not sure whatelse to do here. I can mount discs on this device so 
> its apparently functioning just fine.
> Any other thoughts appreciated. Oh another thing, I tried specifying 
> -dvd-device as /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd with the same above 
> error message accept the only difference is that the device name it 
> couldn't open would match what I put on the command line.
> 
> tia
> Scott
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[Scott Howell]

Tom, yes I sure did, but only on the console I was originally working 
in. I shouldn't have to log out of all consoles from what I understand.

Scott

>Did you log out and then log back in after changing the /etc/group file?
>
>Tom
>

Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[Sean McMahon]

I would logout from any where you are logged in then log back in and type
groups.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Howell" <n3byy@adelphia.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: dvd with mplayer help needed


> Tom, yes I sure did, but only on the console I was originally working
> in. I shouldn't have to log out of all consoles from what I understand.
>
> Scott
>
> >Did you log out and then log back in after changing the /etc/group file?
> >
> >Tom
> >
>
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Re: dvd with mplayer help needed

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Scott:

Unfortunately, I don't yet have an answer, but I thought I should chime
in here to say that I'm also struggling with this situation. However,
it's even more strange, because in my case there's one machine where
mplayer works perfectly well, and another where it doesn't. Both have
pretty much the same installed software base.

So, go figure. I haven't figured it yet.

Scott Howell writes:
> Thanks, I tried adding myself to the cdrom and disk group with no luck. 
> The difference between being root and myself as a user I get the 
> following error as just a user.
> 
> Playing DVD title 1
> libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
> 
> Now my drive is /dev/hdc which is part of the disk group and I created a 
> symlink to this device as cdrom and dvd. I still get the above error 
> despite the fact I've added myself to both groups and I did logout of 
> the current console and log back in.
> I'm not sure whatelse to do here. I can mount discs on this device so 
> its apparently functioning just fine.
> Any other thoughts appreciated. Oh another thing, I tried specifying 
> -dvd-device as /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd with the same above 
> error message accept the only difference is that the device name it 
> couldn't open would match what I put on the command line.
> 
> tia
> Scott
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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