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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
