On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:04:55AM +0800, Homer Sipes wrote:
> > hi, i am trying to watch my dvds using mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/cd0a and i also tried /dev/cd0d but i get this error:
> > > Error -1 while parsing option: 'dvd-device'!
> > > command line: -dvd-device
> >
> > does anyone know what i can do? I am running NetBSD-1.5ZC btw
>
> Looks like mplayer doesn't support '-dvd-device'
> Maybe update mplayer, if a newer version has been commited to pkgsrc ?

It works for me, mplayer-0.90rc5, NetBSD 1.5.3. [I can not play VCD's
though.] Making "/dev/dvd" a link works just as well, in any case.

Frederick