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> > > > gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time. mplayer doesn't output |
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> > > > anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops |
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> > > > up right away, before a DVD is put in: |
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> > > How do you run mplayer from a terminal with no DVD in thr drive, or are |
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> > > you running gmplayer. Try |
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> > > mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://1 |
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> > > with a DVD in the drive |
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> > I was in fact using gmplayer. Your command above is able to play 2 |
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> > out of 4 of the DVDs just like gxine, and it fails much more |
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> > gracefully than gxine on the other 2. |
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> > I thought gmplayer was just a UI for mplayer. Why would mplayer play |
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> > what gmplayer can't? Is there a better UI for mplayer than gmplayer? |
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> Never liked gmplayer, it tends to crash on my system, while mplayer |
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> itself has no problems at all. But to your question, I would sincerely |
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> check my DVD drive, I also had problems exactly like yours, the |
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> problem was a dying DVD drive that could not read some discs, and even |
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> those discs seem to be readable once in a while... Let me ask you, is |
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> this a notebook or laptop? |
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It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old. I don't like gmplayer |
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either. Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the |
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command line to play DVDs? |
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- Grant |
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