Argh dvd playback in gentoo...

[ooagentbender]

I have looked over a billion tutorials and tried everything in them only to get this same thing every time.

MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton 2158 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
3DNow supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:

Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds

Playing dvd://1.
Unable to open URL: dvd://1


Exiting... (End of file)

I have tried making a sim link from my dvd to /dev/dvd, I tried hdparming the thing and nothing works I get this every time?

anyone?

[soda_popstar]

In my experience, MPlayer isn't that great with DVDs. Try doing "USE="dvd" emerge totem ogle" and try them out.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by ooagentbender

I have tried making a sim link from my dvd to /dev/dvd

And that would be? :)

What command did you use for the symlink and what devices did you use?

[ooagentbender]

for some reason emerging totem isn't working theres an error when it compiles, and I used

ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/dvd when I made the link...at least im pretty sure thats what I did.

anyone have any ideas, this is really the last thing I have to get working on my computer before my box is poifect.

thanks.

[eslackey]

Totem is much better if you use the xine backend instead of gstreamer, and also I would get the latest version.

# echo media-video/totem ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# USE="dvd xine -gstreamer" emerge totem
maybe using the xine backend will take care of the emerge issues. Or you could post the error you are getting.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by ooagentbender

ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/dvd when I made the link...at least im pretty sure thats what I did.


What kernel version are you using (uname -r) and do you have scsi emulation enabled for the DVD?

[ooagentbender]

im using 2.6.5 -gentoo-r1 and I don't know if I have scsi setup that would make all the difference in the world wouldn't it. how do I do that?


GAH i tried ogle and it worked fine

thanks all