Haines Brown wrote:
> I installed and have been using mplayer succcessfully, but decided I'd
> like to be able to run DVDs, and so now installed the win32codecs
> package. I was able to play one DVD, which is a copy of an old silent
> film, but when I try a new DVD, I get:
>
> libavformat file format detected.
> LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
> So I did
>
> $ mplayer -v
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> ...
> get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/brownh/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
> Reading /home/brownh/.mplayer/codecs.conf:
> Can't open '/home/brownh/.mplayer/codecs.conf':
> No such file or directory
> Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Using built-in default codecs.conf.
> ...
>
> It turned out I have no codecs.conf file in either /etc/mplayer/ or in
> ~/.mplayer/ . Shouldn't mplayer have created the file? I was unable to
> locate any instance of codecs.conf.
>
> Should I have uninstalled mplayer and then reinstalled it after
> installing win32codecs
You do not need win32codecs to play DVDs. Also, I don't really think
codecs.conf is necessary.
Perhaps you need the libdvdcss2 library to decrypt encrypted DVDs.
Debian does not carry it, but you can get it from
www.debian-multimedia.org . I don't know if the standard Debian version
of mplayer can use it even if it is installed by the user, but you'd
probably be better off using the mplayer from debian-multimedia anyway.
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