Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger <at> gmx.de> writes: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:08:20PM +0000, Damon wrote: > > No, the problem is as follows. The DVD contains several tracks, out if which > > only the first makes problems. If I play the first one, it would say > > > > [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]ac-tex damaged at 16 9 > > [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]Warning MVs not available > > [mpeg2video @ 0x879d200]concealing 945 DC, 945 AC, 945 MV errors > > Video stream is broken. Try dvdnav://, the DVD might be intentionally or accidentally broken. Hi, thank you very much for your help. I tried that, but when I select the broken chapter, the problem persists. It does not matter whether I play the stream directly via dvd://1 or via dvdnav:// > > Besides that, I was able to play the DVD earlier on the > > same machine with mplayer. > > Then the most promising approach is to find out when exactly it broke. I build mplayer from source around a week ago, and then I played the DVD yesterday, which worked. But I forgot to compile mplayer with --enable-gui, so I pulled the sources again yesterday afternoon, and that's when the problem occurred. > > As usual, then mplayer > > complains that the output (video driver) does not accept the DVD colorspace, > > and tries to load the 'scale' video filter (why?). > > Because you are using an OpenGL output without telling it to support it, e.g. > by using -vo gl:yuv=2 or -vo gl2:yuv=2 Ok, I will try this. > Either way, using gl2 is strongly discouraged, if you are using gl2 because > you can > not use gl for some reason better report a bug. > > > The interesting part is that I had to use gl2 as video output since the > > standard > > one would crash (not only mplayer, but the entire machine simply stops!). > > Could > > gl2 have a problem? And if so, why with the first track only? > > It has nothing to do with that, but gl probably works if you add > swapinterval=-1 to the options. I'll try that as well and see. > For what I can tell that is a bug NVidia added only recently to their drivers. That's what I thought initially. Anyway, thanks for your help! I appreciate that. Cheers, Damon