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
>> 
>> 
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