Re: IDE DVD playback on 5.1-CURRENT

You might also want/need to change/define a "local" mplayer configuration
ala:

/home/.../.mplayer/gui.conf


where you can change the "runtime" configuration paramaters such as:

ao_driver = "oss:/dev/dsp1"
ao_volnorm = "no"
ao_surround = "no"
ao_extra_stereo = "no"
ao_extra_stereo_coefficient = "1.000000"
ao_oss_mixer = "/dev/mixer"
ao_oss_device = "/dev/dsp1"
dvd_device = "/dev/acd0c"
cdrom_device = "/dev/cdrom"

using/choosing a different "dvd_device" and/or "ao_oss_device"/"ao_driver". I
have had to change these variables going from 4.8 to 5.1 as different IDE
hardware was or was not recognized.



On 27 Aug, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Ian Freislich wrote:
>> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>> 
>>>I've asked this same question on freebsd-questions an on #freebsd
>>>(freenode), but haven't gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask on here.
>>>
>>>I'm hoping someone can help me out here.
>>>
>>>I recently moved a firewire card and DVD drive that had been in my FreeBSD
>>>box to another computer.  I replaced it with an IDE DVD drive.  The
>>>probelm is that now I can't get mplayer or vlc to play any DVDs that had
>>>previously worked with the firewire drive.
>>>
>>>I have, of course, made sure that /dev/dvd is a symbolic link to /dev/acd0
>>>instead of /dev/cd0 (as it used to be).  The only difference that I can
>>>think of is that FreeBSD sees the firewire drive as a scsi drive and sees
>>>the ide drive as an ide drive.
>> 
>> 
>> Have you tried (from mplayer's man page):
>> 
>> 	-dvd-device <path to device>
>> 	      Override default DVD device name /dev/dvd.
> 
> Actually, I recall some player on which you just had to mount the dvd, 
> and them point them at the path where the dvd was mounted.