DVD playback - no video

[timread]

I am trying to play dvds with little success. The audio is ok but instead of seeing the video I get a blue screen....

I have installed libdvdcss2, and w32codecs, and have tried with several players (xine, mplayer, kmplayer vlc, etc...) but always get the same. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tim

[Rog131]

Re: DVD playback - no video

Do you get error messages when start player in the konsole ?

[timread]

Re: DVD playback - no video

Thanks for responding. When I start mplayer from the konsole (gmplayer) and try to load the DVD I get the following error:

Playing dvd://1.
libdvdread: Can't stat /media/hdb
No existe el fichero ó directorio
Couldn't open DVD device: /media/hdb
File not found: '1'
Failed to open dvd://1



But if I load the file directly, I get the following output with the screen of the mplayer window is blue...:

Playing /media/cdrom0/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 7000.0 kbps (875.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 224.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/14.58% (ratio: 28000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
================================================== ========================
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
alsa-space: xrun of at least 3.662 msecs. resetting stream2.2% 12 0


It looks like the Video decoder gave an error, but I do not know why?

I have two monitors (the portable's screen and an external TFT - Could that be a problem?

Thanks,

Tim

[Josh]

Re: DVD playback - no video

Do you have libxine-extracodecs, libdvdnav4, and libdvdread3 installed? Actually, I don't know for sure that you need all of them, but there the packages I have, in addition to the ones you mentioned, and I've yet to find a DVD I can't play, regardless of region or format.

Josh

[Tuhinsr]

Re: DVD playback - no video

I installed the mplayer codec set mencoder -- it should be a pretty good collection-- worked for me - libdvdread is essential

[Rog131]

Re: DVD playback - no video

Have you tried :

$ gmplayer /dev/hdb