From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 19:48:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07369106566B for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:48:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE47F8FC08 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2D042E80E8E; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:48:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:48:03 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20101022194803.GA5375@thought.org> References: <20101021232432.GA31246@thought.org> <20101022180748.GA27310@slackbox.erewhon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101022180748.GA27310@slackbox.erewhon.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Anybody know what causes "movie player" to return "ERR"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:48:05 -0000 On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 08:07:48PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:24:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I don't think this is OS-specific, but this morning I *wasted* a few > > hours trying to watch a DVD of "Dr. Strangelove." I tried to dd the > > iso into /usr/tmp, but that errored out too. > > Try "mplayer dvd://1 -v -dumpstream -dumpfile title.mpg" from the command > line, and replace the "1" by the number of the longest track. This should give > you a better indication of the error. > > > No, I have 0.0 intent > > of wasting the diskspace on movies, but just wonder if why /dev/dvd > > and /media fail. Ubuntu. > > You are sure that your DVD player isn't broken? Thanks for the "mplayer dvd" trace idea. Turns out that I was missing some of the libdvd stuff. Never installed them. The way you detail things on your help pages is outstanding. The *but* is that I don't want to mess with anything on my FreeBSD server that has any [remote] chance of bringing down the box. That means having to learn two OS's, but so it goes. > > Some CDs and DVDs are made in such a way that they do not comlpy with the > relevant standard, but play in most hardware-based players. Sometimes you can > figure this out by looking at the box. E.g. on the DVD of the latest Star Trek > movie the index was subtly broken on purpose. It is usually labeled as copy > protection. But in my experience, FreeBSD and Linux usually don't have > problems with those. :-D Been meaning to buy/get-from-library the latest Star Trek movie. I've heard it's pretty good. Butthen, after ***sweating*** endless headaches for a year I thought that Strangelove was the thing. --I didn't know it was make it the UK; anyway, it's got t be the funniest movie made. [[i'm laughing rt now]] > > Try another player application like vlc. Good idea: while the disc is still in there. thanks again! gary PS: beware fluoridated water!! LOLOL. > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org