D?niel Fraga wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:57:49 -0800 > RC <cooleyr at gmail.com> wrote: > >> No, the main advantage of dvdnav is that it works around primitive copy >> protection schemes, and pathologically mastered DVDs that won't work >> any other way. > > These protection schemes I solve using DVDFab Free. I think > it's better to use a software that really can read all kinds of DVD > than to use a generic player like MPlayer and hope that it can manage > copy protection. > > If you take a Disney DVD for instance, there're so many > unplayable cells etc and all kinds of protection that I can't imagine > using just MPlayer to read it. > That might be true, but I can't imagine that this could be a final solution, having to run some program in between to make it work, as up to this moment everything (and also Disney DVDs) I have been able to play with dvdnav, especially because it doesn't reed the unplayble sectors and cells. Only recently though because of some complex cell navigation (I assume) playback has a problem with two of my newest DVDs, and in this case I still doubt your solution would work miracles, as it is the jumping around (apparently) that doesn not work correctly, and this is clearly a mplayer problem. -- cheers, Alex