Comments on: mplayer + dvdnav support … kinda

By: roger

roger — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:27:20 +0000

works great here -mouse-movements -vo direct3d (for windows–needs direct3d)

By: Jinn

Jinn — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:38:18 +0000

Didn’t figure out how to get your overlay with layman, but did manage to get it like this:

cd /usr/portage/local/
svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/beandog
echo -e “PORTDIR_OVERLAY=\”\$PORTDIR_OVERLAY\n/usr/portage/local/beandog\n\”" >> /etc/make.conf

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:46:36 +0000

@Tim, no, libdvdcss is a part of mplayer

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:45:15 +0000

Using your overlay, if mplayer is built with media-libs/libdvdnav support, shouldn’t it also depend on media-libs/libdvdcss? I couldn’t get encrypted dvds to play without installing libdvdcss since the external dvdread libs in libdvdnav apparently do not support encrypted dvds.

By: numerodix

numerodix — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:19:07 +0000

Hey Steve, thanks for working on one of THE crucial applications of my daily use.

By: nightmorph

nightmorph — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:56:03 +0000

Er, never mind on that last one. Found it. Missed it. Feel free to delete my previous comment and this one.

By: nightmorph

nightmorph — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:43:36 +0000

Also, is there a keyboard command to return to the toplevel DVD menu, in the middle of a segment that’s being played? I can’t seem to find anything in “man mplayer” that covers DVD navigation.

By: nightmorph

nightmorph — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:39:40 +0000

Hey Steve.

First, much thanks for providing the ebuilds. I downloaded ‘em and got ‘em compiled nicely, without the help of layman thankyouverymuch!

gmplayer doesn’t work after being launched from the menu, then using the standard right-click context menu to “Open disc”. The program crashes with a signal 11 error if you try to use the navigation keys. Never brings up the DVD menu, either. It can’t. It also doesn’t work if you try running gmplayer dvdnav:// from the commandline. Phooey.

Running mplayer dvdnav:// from the commandline does work, and it’s even better with -mouse-movements. The problem then is…you’re running it from the commandline, which is so damnawful stoneage my head ‘asplodes. And I have no idea how to control stuff while using the commandline. Neither I nor my wife want to have to resort to the commandline to watch stuff; that’s what GUIs are for!

So I’ll prolly be going back to the (crappier) Menu –> Launch gmplayer –> right click in gmplayer window –> DVD –> Open Disc –> Title –> play the “guess which title has the feature I want” game.

Darned if you do, darned if you don’t. Such is the sad state of DVD playback on Linux.

Unless, if course, I figure out what commandline switches there are to launch a fullscreen dvdnav:// mplayer, and add a launcher for it to my menu…hmmm…

You get all that?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:37:10 +0000

Yah, I guess I didnt make that clear … the libdvdnav in my overlay will replace libdvdread, which is why I warned against using it if youre using that lib anywhere else.

By: Karl Zollner

Karl Zollner — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:56:25 +0000

Hey there I just tried out your mplayer ebuild(could not get it added to layman….). turns out this version of libdvdnav blocks libdvdread(which is used by a lot of things-transcode(k3b), dvdauthor, vamps, lsdvd, mmpython, libdvdplay, k9copy, ogmtools, gst-plugins-dvdread, etc.. Well this version of mplayer builds its own libdvdread so I just put media-libs/libdvdread-9999 in package.provided and edited a couple of ebuilds which had =media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.7* to read =media-libs/libdvdread-9999 and recompiled everything-no problems compiling anything. still havent exhaustedly tested things but everything compiled fine…..