On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:14:46 -0500 Terry Sheltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds like you've gotten further with things than I have. I am not > able to get Xine (off the MDK CDs) to work properly with any DVD I own. > All I can manage to do is make it crash, even after installing every > codec and plugin available from the PLF website. Pretty much the same > for me with Mplayer. It will run, but does not keep my settings, and > trying to play a DVD results in a window full of garbage, again after > installing all the plugins available via PLF. If you happen to come > across a way to get either of these two progs working, please let me know. > Sorry to hear that you are having so much difficulty with these applications. Each newer version of these multimedia programs seems to get more difficult to install and get running but that is the price you pay for greater functionality and improved performance. Ogle always seems to be easier to manage, but its gui is not fully functional - several dead buttons. I installed Mandrake's xine from the 8.2 download CDs so kindly provided by Shane and had endless trouble trying to get it going by downloading RPMs and doing rpm -ivh installs. Urpmi certainly makes life easier and so does PLF. Needless to say I cannot remember exactly what the prescription was for xine but it involved libxine, xine-gui, win32 codecs and xine-plugins. Have you tried invoking it with the command "xine -s DVD dvdnav://" or "xine -pq -s DVD dvdnav://" to play immediately and quit when finished? There are other things to check like the settings in ~/.xinerc and the rawdevices service (which is probably running by default) and /dev/dvd. Then there are the skins - haven't sorted that one out yet. The same goes for mplayer. Poked around on the PLF site to see what was available and, like you, downloaded several packages. Had trouble choosing a video driver but x11 worked. If your settings don't stick maybe you need to create a ~/.mplayer/config file (copy from /etc/mplayer.conf perhaps?). It works on DVDs for me with "mplayer -dvd 1" (or 2 or 3...). Also, there is a short tutorial on the net about getting DVDs to play under one or other of these applications, reported on this list very recently: http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Maybe you have already seen that. Sorry if this does not help. I have been shooting in the dark a lot lately. -- Len Lawrence
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