mplayer-problems

[Niels Kobschaetzki]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 01:14:06PM +0100, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>  > In the terminal
>  > [user at host /usr/home/user]$ mplayer -vo xv dvd://3 -dvd-device /dev/acd0
>  > MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
>  > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1000MHz (Family: 6, Model: 11,
>  > Stepping: 1)
>  > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
>  > Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
>  > mplayer: could not connect to socket
>  > mplayer: No such file or directory
>  > Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
>  > control.
>  >
>  > Playing dvd://3.
>  > Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/acd0
>  > No stream found to handle url dvd://3
>
>  See the error, it says it can't open /dev/acd0. Problems is that your
>  permissions are set right. Set the right permissions for /dev/acd0 and
>  things should be fine.

That was it - thx :)
Now the video plays but the output looks scrambled and mplayer tells
me that my machine is too slow. But even on a P3 1 GHz DVDs should
run…especially when DivX and co can be decoded w/out any problems.
Any ideas?

Niels