Playing movie dvd issue [solved]

Hello,
I cannot get a movie dvd to play with mplayer.
libdvdread libdvdcss libdvdnav are installed.
I tried the following things which all fail.
[/home/robert]$ gnome-mplayer dvd://1
Segmentation fault
[/home/robert]$ gnome-mplayer /dev/dvd
in media state change with state = 0
Failed to open /dev/dvd.
[/home/robert]$ gnome-mplayer /dev/sr0
proc is at /proc
sys is at /sys
udev is at /dev
run is at /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/e3e392d3-a369-4635-bf63-6cf4114100f3 is at /
devpts is at /dev/pts
shm is at /dev/shm
tmpfs is at /tmp
/dev/sda1 is at /media/personal
fusectl is at /sys/fs/fuse/connections
gvfs-fuse-daemon is at /home/robert/.gvfs
/dev/sr0 is at /media/MONEY_AS_DEBT___REVISED_EDITIO
/dev/sr0 is mounted on /media/MONEY_AS_DEBT___REVISED_EDITIO
Segmentation fault
[/home/robert]$ gnome-mplayer /media/MONEY_AS_DEBT___REVISED_EDITIO^_/
Segmentation fault
Any advice?
Regards
Last edited by orschiro (2011-10-20 23:12:10)

I figured out that you can set the default drive in the settings of gnome-mplayer which is necessary since there is no longer a symlink of /dev/dvd to /dev/sr0.
Also there will be a -dvd-device command for gnome-mplayer in future releases.
See: http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/ … ail?id=569
Regards

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