On 7.6 I'm having problems playing DVDs. My drive shows up as /dev/sr0, and has a /dev/cdrom symlink but not /dev/dvd : that much is not new.
As I've previously noted, vlc is unusable for playng DVDs - plays a few seconds, then pauses for a few seconds - but it works enough to show that libdvdcss is installed. In xine, I can only play from the DVD option on the menu if I've made a /dev/symlink - and that, of course, goes when I power off. But under those circumstances it works. With lsdvd and transcode I have managed to extract a vob file - again specifying /dev/sr0 - and both xine and parole can play that. Actually, I just tried that in vlc, again it only plays for a second two before pausing, so I guess my vlc problem is with the dvd libs (it's fine with the mp4 I made using ffmpeg). But in parole, if I specify /dev/cdrom or /dev/sr0 I get an alert popup: GStreamer backend error Error parsing H.264 stream This is with gstreamer-1.4 and almost every potential plugin dependency - I guess it is probably using x264, but I might be wrong. Any suggestions for fixing parole to play DVDs, please ? ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
