DVD disks - Totem locks up hard, Mplayer can't play the disk
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:04 am
The title says it all. I've done some searching but not stumbled upon something useful.
When I insert a disk Totem starts, and the movie on the disk begins to play, but not smoth - it stops and restarts several times. After a minute or two it freezes so hard I had to use the reset button. Strangely enough I could use Alt+F1 and Alt+F2 but could not "Quit" and turn off .
Mplayer compains that it could not open the DVD player
"Error Failed to open dvd://1" I'd expect /dev/hdd or /media/cdrom1 but that might just be ignorance
Could be the disk - I'll have to find another one - not a big movie fan
//edit// Did not find an advice in another post to change the preferences in Mplayer to use xv. It now plays a bit longer that totem and then locks up hard, but I can use the rest of the system.
When I insert a disk Totem starts, and the movie on the disk begins to play, but not smoth - it stops and restarts several times. After a minute or two it freezes so hard I had to use the reset button. Strangely enough I could use Alt+F1 and Alt+F2 but could not "Quit" and turn off .
Mplayer compains that it could not open the DVD player
"Error Failed to open dvd://1" I'd expect /dev/hdd or /media/cdrom1 but that might just be ignorance
Could be the disk - I'll have to find another one - not a big movie fan
//edit// Did not find an advice in another post to change the preferences in Mplayer to use xv. It now plays a bit longer that totem and then locks up hard, but I can use the rest of the system.