[vdr] Re: Getting mplayer to work with vdr

["John Grant" <john.grant@savcredit.co.uk>]

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:00:40 +0100
 Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com> wrote:
> John Grant wrote:
> > After a three hour bzttle getting ffmpeg & mplayer to 
> > compile - and look at the time - I now have the problem 
> > of 
> > making it work.
> >
> > I'm using the dual purpose mp3/mplayer plugin and the 
> > mp3 
> > part is fine, but when I select mplayer I get a fairly 
> > empty screen, if I select source I can see my two 
> > defined 
> > sources; a file server with mpegs and the dvd/vdrom 
> > drive. 
> > If I select the drive then there doesn't seem to be 
> > anything I can do, the  screen is mostly blank (pressing 
> > mount or play does nothing). If I select the fileserver, 
> > then when I select an mpeg nothing seems to happen. If I 
> > look at the console I can see s chsnging display with 
> > timer like information scrolling slong until it suddenly 
> > stops with some form of data error. Meanwhile the vdr 
> > screen has continued showing live tv - except when 
> > mplayer 
> > stops and there is a short period of black screen. All 
> > in 
> > all, pretty useless so far.
> Please read the READMEs that come with the mp3/mplayer 
> plugin and if
> that doesn't is enough search the mailing list archive.
>
> In short: you need a script that is invoked by the 
> mplayer plugin that
> calls mplayer with the needed options. The mplayer 
> plugin comes with a
> sample script, but you'll find a more sophisticate 
> version at
> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/VDR/
Although I had used the READMEs that came with the plugin, 
these were more useful - now I'm left with (hopefully) one 
question:

"How do I setup mplayer to play DVDs"

The section detailing DVD-VCD says it's deprecated and 
indeed when I try that configuration I sm rewarded with 
"Unknown video file format /video/plugins/DVD-VCD/DVD: 
empty", so I reverted to trying the more obvious source
of /dev/hdc, which alas requires mounting which just has 
to be wrong...

So what is the preferred configuration to play DVDs ?


(I know mplayer works as it can now play mpgs from a 
fileserver)
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