[mythtvnz] Any ideas why I get only sound - only with DVDs?

[Mike Dilger]

mplayer doesn't do DVD navigation, AFAIK, so you might not want to use
mplayer.  I use "xine --auto-play=fh --auto-scan dvd".

If you have libdvdcss.*,libdvdplay.*,libdvdread* in your library path,
then it sounds like mplayer is not compiled with the right configure
flags.  Mplayer has tons of configure flags.  I would recompile it
myself in /usr/local.

-Mike

Jason Haar wrote:
> I have a basically working MythTV now - can record/watch TV, watch AVIs,
> mp3,etc. Audio is ALSA and works fine. I have not esd/artsd running -
> just pure ALSA.
>
> However, I'm trying to rip a new DVD I have, and in "ISO image" or 
> "Perfect" mode, it records the video - but no audio!
>
> Similarly, if I just try to play the DVD - nothing shows on screen, but
> "ps" shows mplayer is running.
>
> So then I ran mplayer by hand - same problem. It reports "Encrypted VOB
> file!" many times, then the video shows up - sans audio.
>
> OTOH xine plays the DVD just fine - audio and all.
>
> I suspect it's a codec issue, but I cannot find out what's amiss. I've
> tried this with a few DVDs - same problem.
>
> Any ideas? I have libdvd* installed, but that doesn't seem to be used by
> mplayer?
>
> This is FedoraCore4, mplayer-1.0-54_pre8.fc4.at
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason
>