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6 <P><B><A NAME=4.1>4.1. CD-ROM drives</A></B></P>
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8 <P>Playing standard Video CDs:</P>
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11 mplayer -vcd <I>trackno</I> [device]<BR><BR>
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12 Examples:<BR>
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13 mplayer -vcd 1<BR>
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14 mplayer -fs -vcd 2 /dev/hdc<BR>
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15 </P>
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17 <P>
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18 Notes:<BR>
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19 - Do NOT mount VCD disks and play DAT files directly! It may work under windows
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20 but won't work under linux. You have to play them directly, with the -vcd
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21 option!<BR>
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22 - VCD disks usually have 2 tracks: a data track (containing autostart windows
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23 playback program, karaoke data etc) and a mode-2 track (the movie), so try
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24 -vcd 2 first!<BR>
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25 - the default VCD device is /dev/cdrom. if your device differs, then you have
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26 to make a symlink, or specify it in command line!
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31 <P>Some CDROM drives are capable of changing their head-speed. There are several
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32 reasons for changing the speed of a CDROM drive. Badly pressed CDROMs may
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33 benefit from less-than-maximum head rate. Modern CDROM drives can obtain very
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34 high head rates (up to 24-times is common). It has been reported that these
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35 drives can make reading errors at these high speeds, reducing the speed can
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36 prevent data loss in these circumstances. Finally, some of these drives can
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37 make an annoyingly loud noise, which a lower speed may reduce.</P>
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39 <P>The recommended way to do it is with a program called 'setcd' . It's kinda
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40 old, but won't be too hard to find on the Net. (UPDATE : new hdparm
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41 has an option for this !)
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42 Use it with :</P>
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44 <P> <CODE>setcd -x [speed] [cdrom device]</CODE></P>
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48 <P> <CODE>echo current_speed:4 >/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P>
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50 <P>but you'll need root privileges. I use following command too:</P>
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52 <P> <CODE>echo file_readahead:2000000 >/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P>
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54 <P>for 2MB prefetched reading from the file (it's useful for scratched CDROMs).
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55 It's recommended that you tuneup your CDROM drive also with hdparm:</P>
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57 <P> <CODE>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)</CODE></P>
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59 <P>to enable using DMA access, readahead, and IRQ unmasking.
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60 (if you don't understand these, *read the hdparm manpage*)</P>
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62 <P>Please refer to "<CODE>/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE>" for fine-tuning your
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63 CDROM.</P>
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65 <P><B><A NAME=4.2>4.2. DVD playback</A></B></P>
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67 <P>Yes, the real DVD support has been arrived. You don't need to play VOB files
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68 manually from disk thinking of the purpose of a file in the video_ts
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69 directory, you don't need worry it it's an encrypted disk or not (in old
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70 <B>MPlayer</B> you had to put '-dvdauth /dev/dvd' into the command line in case
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71 of encrypted discs), and you don't need even mount your disk to be able to
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72 play :)</P>
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74 <P>IMPORTANT NOTE: please _DO_NOT_ require further features for DVD playback.
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75 This is the first version of some real DVD support inside <B>MPlayer</B> and
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76 we're busy with hunting bugs and implementing basic DVD player features.</P>
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78 <P><B>MPlayer</B> uses libdvdread which has got built in support for IFO
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79 parsing, reading navi blocks and doing authentication/descrambling. libdvdread
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80 uses libdvdcss to the latter tasks. So you will need libdvdcss and libdvdread
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81 downloaded, compiled and installed BEFORE you run ./configure script of
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82 <B>MPlayer</B> which will autodetect libdvdread for you in this way.</P>
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84 <UL>
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85 <LI><P><B>Download source of libdvdread and libdvdcss.</B></P>
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87 <P><I>You can download them from
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88 <A HREF="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd">http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd</A>
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89 (click 'download' in the menu at the left, and you can find libdvdcss and
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90 libdvdread in a table).</I></P></LI>
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92 <LI><P><B>Compile and install libdvdcss THEN libdvdread.</B></P>
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94 <P><I>Read documentation of these packages to do this step easily.</I></P></LI>
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96 <LI><P><B>Recompile MPlayer.</B></P>
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98 <P><I>Run <CODE>./configure</CODE>. If you install libdvdread correctly, ./configure
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99 says something similar:<BR><CODE>Checking for DVDread support ... yes</CODE><BR>
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100 (Of course you can put your favourite configure options into the command
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101 line when you run ./configure). That's it! Say: <CODE>make</CODE>, then <CODE>make install</CODE>.</I></P></LI>
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102 </UL>
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104 <P>Of course after installing libdvdcss and libdvdread you don't need recompile
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105 them at each time when you want to recompile <B>MPlayer</B> (from a new CVS version
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106 for example) since the needed packages have already been installed on your
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109 <P><B>Using MPlayer to play DVDs:</B></P>
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113 <TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-dvd <title_id> </TD>
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114 <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Enables DVD support and selects title.</TD><TR>
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115 <TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-chapter <chapter_id> </TD>
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116 <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Selects DVD chapter (default: play from chapter 1)</TD><TR>
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117 <TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-dvdangle <angle_id> </TD>
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118 <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Selects camera angle (default: 1)</TD><TR>
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121 <P>Default device is <CODE>/dev/dvd</CODE>, you can change it in config.h
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122 (compile time option), or you can specify it as a filename for <B>MPlayer</B>:
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126 <P> <CODE>mplayer -dvd 2 -chapter 5 -dvdangle 2</CODE></P>
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132 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>
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134 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>
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135 Who knows ... Please test it and send feedback. But it's said that it
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136 should work. Please refer documentation of libdvdread and its homepage
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137 as well. We're not authors of libdvdread.
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144 displaying functionality inside <B>MPlayer</B> (DVD subs are stored as images,
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145 not text!). However it's a planned feature (at the time of libvo2).
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149 I've got no sound / bad sound (Spanish audio and other ugly things).
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151 <B>MPlayer</B> currently does not use all of information of IFO blocks from DVD.
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152 You can adjust the right DVD audio stream with: '-aid 128' command line
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153 option, where 128 is the stream id of requested audio stream. You can
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154 experience with numbers of 128,129,... and so on. Of course this problem
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