Hi Nigel Things are going good. Hay where can I find the windows codecs package. THANKS FOR THE HELP. Art. On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:06 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 17:03, Art wrote: > > Hi I need some help setting up the mPlayer to play DVD's. I can bring it > > up to the play list. On the list it dose not show the DVD. How do I get > > to my DVD drive and what plugins do I need to install. > > Thanks > > Art Giles > > Hi Art. Hows it going? > > Where did you get Mplayer from? Freshrpms, or Livna? You don't only need > Mplayer, but also the w32codecs package. > > Make sure that Mplayer is setup to access your DVD drive. > > For example I have 3 optical drives (cdrom, cdwriter, and dvdrom) on one of my > machines. When you open Mplayer, at the extreme left of the window with the > controls on it there is a button. Click on that, which will bring up the > preferences window. Click on "misc", and it will show you where it's trying > to access your DVD rom drive from. In my case it's pointing to /dev/cdrom2, > but I have 3 drives, and that is the correct one for the DVD rom drive. > > On my other machine I have a combination drive (cdrom/cdwriter/dvdrom). If I > look at /dev in my file manager I have 3 entries, cdrom1, cdrw1, and dvd1. > All these are links pointing to the block device hdd. > > You need to make sure that what is there in Mplayers preferences > misc is > pointing to the correct link in /dev for the DVD device. > > An alternative for playing DVD's is the vlc package, but you will also need to > install the libdvdcss package as well ( that may be libdvdcss2), and may well > still need to check that it's accessing your drive correctly in /dev. > > All the best, and may the force be with you. > > Nigel. > >
