On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:45:53AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > If I understand you correctly, mplayer is entirely self contained, and > when the package is installed it brings in everying needed to play DVDs.
i've acctually never used mplayer from debian repos. mplayer automaticaly depends on libraries it needs. however i think that debian cannot include win32 codecs and libdvdcss because of patents or something like this. so it may have problem cracking the dvd titles. > > So, I should be able to pass an empty URI to the mplayer command and it > automatically looks for a title to unencrypt from whichever DVD drive > happens to be mounted. you don't have to mount the device. mplayer(to be correct libdvdread) accesses dvd as device in /dev/dvd(or anything specified using -dvd-device) because it needs access to the specified sectors, not just a filesystem, which you get, when you mount it. mk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]