mplayer suddenly stops playing dvd

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 02:02 -0600, Arkajyoti Misra wrote:
> I am having a strange problem with mplayer - it stops playing dvd
> after some time. Here is a sample error message after it played a dvd
> for about an hour:
> a52: CRC check failed!  0.007 ct:  0.166 105024/105021 23%  2%  2.1% 15 0
> a52: error at resampling
> A:  52.5 V:  52.6 A-V: -0.065 ct:  0.156 105033/105030 23%  2%  2.1% 15 0
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> 
> Does anyone have any clue?
> I am running MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.2 on a Toshiba laptop.
> 
> Arko.
> 
Is the dvd dirty or scratched?
Does it play on another computer?

That looks like a problem reading the DVD and not with the player.