On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:11:47PM +0000, Vittorio wrote: > I'd like to watch movies by means of my PC DVD reader. > > Now, I've installed ogle and xine by means of apt-get from debian > stable and compiled mplayer from source. > > None of them works smoothly. > > After having symlinked /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd (it didn't work at all > before this!) OCCASIONALLY and SELDOM either ogle or xine work fine. Now I'm > unable to even start a DVD movie: xine complains about a missing > plugin for 'xine-ui; ogle simply crashes. Mplayer is the only one > akwardly working issuing "mplayer -dvd nn" with nn=1,2,3. > > Is there anyone out there able to explain what's wrong with those > programs and what to do to make them work (either xine or ogle)?
These symptoms suggest a sound server conflict. I know that ogle does in fact crash if it can't get to the sound device. If you are running gnome, kill esd. If you are running kde kill arts. Then give them all a try again. On my machine ogle works fine, but skips some frames. xine was broken in Sid last week - I noticed a new libxine1, so maybe it's fixed now. mplayer from marillat.free.fr works for me, but doesn't do dvd menus. There's also videolan, which has debs and also works. All of them require either killing the sound server or configuring them to use it. -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
