How to compile MPlayer with support for dvdnav: Since the versions of dvdnav and dvdread generally shipped with most Linux distributions are outdated and unmaintained remove any traces of dvdnav and dvdread from your computer (something like the command below should suffice): $ rm -rf /usr/lib/libdvdnav* /usr/lib/libdvdread* /usr/include/dvdnav* \ /usr/include/dvdread* /usr/local/lib/libdvdnav* \ /usr/local/lib/libdvdread* /usr/local/include/dvdnav* \ /usr/local/include/dvdread* /usr/bin/dvdnav-config \ /usr/local/bin/dvdnav-config Now download dvdnav from MPHQ (dvdnav includes its own version of dvdread): $ svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/dvdnav/trunk/libdvdnav libdvdnav $ cd libdvdnav $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make (or, if you feel brave and want to help us improve the new build system) $ ./configure2 && make install it as root with $ make install From within the MPlayer source tree run $ ./configure --disable-dvdread-internal followed by your preferred parameters. Be warned that you *MUST* disable MPlayer's internal copy of dvdread or something - most likely - won't work as expected (if at all). After configure is run it should say that support for dvdnav and dvdread was enabled. If not, investigate the dvdnav and dvdread sections in configure.log and try to understand what went wrong. If you can't solve the problem yourself post the two sections to mplayer-users. Notice: Audio and subtitle language selection by means of menus doesn't work yet. Nonetheless they can be switched as usual at any time during playback by pressing '#' and 'j' (or the keys you chose to override those two bindings).