Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:55:26 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote: >> Btw, can you tell me how to make the player disappear when the movie is >> going? I poked around on the thing and couldn't find it. > > I think all you need to do is right click in the movie window, and it > should disapear. Right click again, and it comes back. I'm not at home > right now, so i can't verify this. > Yes, that is it! Thanks again. -- Anita GnuPG key: 1024D/9EDAC910 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
Feigning erudition, Ian Stephen wrote: % On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 12:55, Net Llama! wrote: % > On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Anita Lewis wrote: % > > Hot diggity, dog!! % % On the subject of DVD/MPEG etc, my kid installed VideoLan client on his % Wintendo and hasn't left his room since. The site says it's a [smirk] That's a *bad* thing? % ps - who is this you ask? I don't think I've introduced myself to the % list. Suppose I should. Pleased to meet you, welcome, keep your head down, and keep your asbestos underwear close at hand. [schnip] % Thrilled to be able to learn so much off this list! ..and be amused by the witty repartee, too. As Andrew said, there are lots of personalities here (some so twisted they are actually broken, but that might the mirror I'm looking at), but some darn smart and experienced personalities, too. Blessed be, Kurt -- "Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense" ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
Ian Stephen wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 12:55, Net Llama! wrote: IanS ps - who is this you ask? I don't think I've introduced myself to the list. Suppose I should. Ian Stephen. Electrician, cyclist, wannabe web designer (www.tradeswest.ca) and new activist to the call "Freedom in software is the democratic future!" (which quote I think I stole from someone on this list btw. :-) Glad to have you aboard. Lots of *unique* personalities, but more importantly, lots of experienced people here. Never a dull moment. -- Andrew Mathews - 7:42pm up 3 days, 2:43, 8 users, load average: 1.09, 1.38, 1.55 - The air conditioning water supply pipe ruptured over the machine room ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On 12/31/02 17:35, Ian Stephen wrote: On the subject of DVD/MPEG etc, my kid installed VideoLan client on his Wintendo and hasn't left his room since. The site says it's a cross-platform multimedia player. www.videolan.org Yea, they're a French company, i think. They put out a decent x-platform movie player (even does encrypted DVDs). They host the libdvdcss package too. ps - who is this you ask? I don't think I've introduced myself to the list. Suppose I should. Ian Stephen. Electrician, cyclist, wannabe web designer (www.tradeswest.ca) and new activist to the call "Freedom in software is the democratic future!" (which quote I think I stole from someone on this list btw. :-) A few months ago needed software to take "1401 Programming Concepts and Methodology" at BCIT and couldn't afford MS Visio so downloaded OpenOffice.org and Dia and rarely boot Windows anymore. Thrilled to be able to learn so much off this list! Main machine's a Celeron 533, RH8.0 with, as of last night, BOTH monitors working! Thanks all, and happy holidays! Welcome onboard! -- ~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 5:55pm up 17 days, 1:04, 2 users, load average: 0.86, 0.72, 0.58 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 12:55, Net Llama! wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Anita Lewis wrote: > > Hot diggity, dog!! On the subject of DVD/MPEG etc, my kid installed VideoLan client on his Wintendo and hasn't left his room since. The site says it's a cross-platform multimedia player. www.videolan.org IanS ps - who is this you ask? I don't think I've introduced myself to the list. Suppose I should. Ian Stephen. Electrician, cyclist, wannabe web designer (www.tradeswest.ca) and new activist to the call "Freedom in software is the democratic future!" (which quote I think I stole from someone on this list btw. :-) A few months ago needed software to take "1401 Programming Concepts and Methodology" at BCIT and couldn't afford MS Visio so downloaded OpenOffice.org and Dia and rarely boot Windows anymore. Thrilled to be able to learn so much off this list! Main machine's a Celeron 533, RH8.0 with, as of last night, BOTH monitors working! Thanks all, and happy holidays! -- Please keep the internet public, avoid sending attachments in proprietary formats. Try plain text, html, rtf or pdf. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Anita Lewis wrote: > Hot diggity, dog!! Well, I tried and tried and failed until I finally got > it right! I used your stepbystep, Lonnie and after I got the latest of > everything like you said to do, I compiled. I got right up to xine-ui and > got errors about aalib. I checked and I had it. I tried the other > front-end and got some major error there. I gave up. I tried lots of stuff > to get mplayer to work. You don't really need aalib at all, unless you want to watch an ASCII representation of the movie. I think there's a configuration option to disable aalib support. Not that it matters much now, but a point of reference. > Btw, can you tell me how to make the player disappear when the movie is > going? I poked around on the thing and couldn't find it. I think all you need to do is right click in the movie window, and it should disapear. Right click again, and it comes back. I'm not at home right now, so i can't verify this. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:45:13 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote: > > Go with Xine. Its worth all the extra effort. See my SxS for building > Xine, and its very easy to build. MPlayer is a great movie player, but > i've had loads of problems trying to get it to work right with DVDs, while > Xine has always worked perfectly for DVDs. > Hot diggity, dog!! Well, I tried and tried and failed until I finally got it right! I used your stepbystep, Lonnie and after I got the latest of everything like you said to do, I compiled. I got right up to xine-ui and got errors about aalib. I checked and I had it. I tried the other front-end and got some major error there. I gave up. I tried lots of stuff to get mplayer to work. Well, today I gave compiling xine-ui one more shot and this time I looked in aptitude and found there is more than just plain aalib - there's aalib-dev and aalib-bin. I install both with apt-get and then configured xine-ui. Bingo! And it works flawlessly! This is terrific. Of course this is on top of the upgrade to a geforce2 agp video card and using the nvidia drivers. Man, this was a fun learning experience. I had just about everything wrong possible, but got it all sorted out. Thanks so much for the help. You are absolutely right that xine works where mplayer wouldn't. Btw, can you tell me how to make the player disappear when the movie is going? I poked around on the thing and couldn't find it. Anita -- Anita GnuPG key: 1024D/9EDAC910 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:41:07 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cdrecord on its own is not capable of burning a DVD. This was actually > discussed on this list perhaps 6 or 7 weeks back, and i did some Googling > and found a few links for Anita Lewis. Might want to check the archives > for them. How odd. I do read the postings. I will check the archives, as a google for Linux and DVD did not satisfy my inate curiosity when I tried a while back. Off to the archives... -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 ·Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · ++···+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
cdrecord on its own is not capable of burning a DVD. This was actually discussed on this list perhaps 6 or 7 weeks back, and i did some Googling and found a few links for Anita Lewis. Might want to check the archives for them. On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > Out of curiosity, what software are you using to burn the DVDs? I am looking > into this (for data backup) and can't get a clear feeling for whether > standard cdrecord does so. Isn't there a 'pro' or something that one needs > for this? Or am I looking in the wrong place? > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:41:31 + (UTC) > Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and > > use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. > > I then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still > > have the thing set to scd0. > > -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
Out of curiosity, what software are you using to burn the DVDs? I am looking into this (for data backup) and can't get a clear feeling for whether standard cdrecord does so. Isn't there a 'pro' or something that one needs for this? Or am I looking in the wrong place? On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:41:31 + (UTC) Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and > use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. > I then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still > have the thing set to scd0. -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 ·Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · ++···+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
Also, memory bandwidth will definitely have an effect. I can't imagine running this on a box with UMA (onboard video using system RAM) would work well. The one I've got will barely run X. You'll need a real AGP card with a decent amount of memory, though there's no need for one of those fancy high-end cards. My 32MB GeForce 256 works fine, though it's three generations from being cutting-edge. Four if you count the paper launch of the GeForce FX. On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 13:57, Net Llama! wrote: > Keep in mind that decoding encrypted DVD's is very CPU entensive. So > unless you have a decoder card (hardware decoding) rather than just using > decss (software decoding) the CPU needs to do all the work in real time. > Slower CPU's just can't keep up, so you either have to drop alot of frames > to keep pace, which results in very jittery performance, or you end up > with the load on the box climbing well over 1.00, and the performance is > still horrid. > > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > > What kind of other hardware are you useing? > > > > I have noticed that Lonnie's recommendation (in the Xine SxS) for > > PIII-550+ is very appropriate. I have a decent 450 system but > > video-playback is miserable. I throw the same RPM's for Xine on the same > > Distro (COLW311) on an 800MHz laptop and playback is great. > > > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:37:02 + (UTC) > > Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:46:38 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > > Good heavens! The 4Mb card won't handle it. In addtion to memory > > > > being too low it's probably old enough it's too slow! > > > > > > > > > > What can I say!? I live in the dark ages! LOL. I'm a console person > > > and just haven't needed more until now. > > > > > > The dvd doesn't play well in the Microtel I have either. That at least > > > has an AGP 4x chip but uses 8Mb of system RAM. I would think that it > > > would be better than the other machine, but it is not. Or maybe it is > > > better, but just not good enough to notice the difference. I haven't > > > really compared the two. > > > > > > I'll report back after I get the other card in. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
Keep in mind that decoding encrypted DVD's is very CPU entensive. So unless you have a decoder card (hardware decoding) rather than just using decss (software decoding) the CPU needs to do all the work in real time. Slower CPU's just can't keep up, so you either have to drop alot of frames to keep pace, which results in very jittery performance, or you end up with the load on the box climbing well over 1.00, and the performance is still horrid. On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > What kind of other hardware are you useing? > > I have noticed that Lonnie's recommendation (in the Xine SxS) for > PIII-550+ is very appropriate. I have a decent 450 system but > video-playback is miserable. I throw the same RPM's for Xine on the same > Distro (COLW311) on an 800MHz laptop and playback is great. > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:37:02 + (UTC) > Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:46:38 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > Good heavens! The 4Mb card won't handle it. In addtion to memory > > > being too low it's probably old enough it's too slow! > > > > > > > What can I say!? I live in the dark ages! LOL. I'm a console person > > and just haven't needed more until now. > > > > The dvd doesn't play well in the Microtel I have either. That at least > > has an AGP 4x chip but uses 8Mb of system RAM. I would think that it > > would be better than the other machine, but it is not. Or maybe it is > > better, but just not good enough to notice the difference. I haven't > > really compared the two. > > > > I'll report back after I get the other card in. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
What kind of other hardware are you useing? I have noticed that Lonnie's recommendation (in the Xine SxS) for PIII-550+ is very appropriate. I have a decent 450 system but video-playback is miserable. I throw the same RPM's for Xine on the same Distro (COLW311) on an 800MHz laptop and playback is great. On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:37:02 + (UTC) Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:46:38 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Good heavens! The 4Mb card won't handle it. In addtion to memory > > being too low it's probably old enough it's too slow! > > > > What can I say!? I live in the dark ages! LOL. I'm a console person > and just haven't needed more until now. > > The dvd doesn't play well in the Microtel I have either. That at least > has an AGP 4x chip but uses 8Mb of system RAM. I would think that it > would be better than the other machine, but it is not. Or maybe it is > better, but just not good enough to notice the difference. I haven't > really compared the two. > > I'll report back after I get the other card in. > > -- > Anita > GnuPG key: 1024D/9EDAC910 > ___ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
No problem - don't fix it if it isn't broken ! It worked till now. There is nothing wrong with console command lines and if more people had to use them we'd have less of the AOL idiots in the computer world. > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:46:38 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> Good heavens! The 4Mb card won't handle it. In addtion to memory being >> too low it's probably old enough it's too slow! >> > > What can I say!? I live in the dark ages! LOL. I'm a console person and > just haven't needed more until now. > > The dvd doesn't play well in the Microtel I have either. That at least > has > an AGP 4x chip but uses 8Mb of system RAM. I would think that it would be > better than the other machine, but it is not. Or maybe it is better, but > just not good enough to notice the difference. I haven't really compared > the two. > > I'll report back after I get the other card in. > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:46:38 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Good heavens! The 4Mb card won't handle it. In addtion to memory being > too low it's probably old enough it's too slow! > What can I say!? I live in the dark ages! LOL. I'm a console person and just haven't needed more until now. The dvd doesn't play well in the Microtel I have either. That at least has an AGP 4x chip but uses 8Mb of system RAM. I would think that it would be better than the other machine, but it is not. Or maybe it is better, but just not good enough to notice the difference. I haven't really compared the two. I'll report back after I get the other card in. -- Anita GnuPG key: 1024D/9EDAC910 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
Good heavens! The 4Mb card won't handle it. In addtion to memory being too low it's probably old enough it's too slow! > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:45:13 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Anita Lewis wrote: > > So far even with the 4MB graphics card that I have - PCI, I have gotten > the video to play with sound using mplayer in linux *if* I use -framedrop > which > will drop frames in order to sync the sound and video. That is a lot more > than I got in Windows using PowerDVD. > > I bought an AGP video card with 32Mb of video ram today. I'll try it > first > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On 12/17/02 16:11, Anita Lewis wrote: So far even with the 4MB graphics card that I have - PCI, I have gotten the Eeekkk! 4MB? Yea, that's your problem right there. You should fair far better with 32MB. -- ~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 4:25pm up 2 days, 23:36, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.36, 0.43 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:45:13 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Anita Lewis wrote: >> Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and >> use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. I >> then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still have >> the thing set to scd0. >> >> So, I now get the movie going just fine at the right speed with audio. Very >> nice for about 15 seconds and then the audio cuts out. The video keeps >> going which makes me think that the bus speed is ok. Anyone here know >> anything about this? Maybe MPlayer is a little complex for the job. I was >> going to try Xine, but I saw that they don't decode. I had to install the >> lib for css separately for MPlayer too; so maybe that is what you do with >> Xine. A little followup on this. I tried ogle and xine and have worse problems with them. It boils down to my hardware being insufficient for the job - seems to be the video hardware. I'm doing two things. I'm getting another movie - an earlier one that may run. The reason I think it might is that this one I have now for testing would not run in Windows and I had two other movies that did. So far even with the 4MB graphics card that I have - PCI, I have gotten the video to play with sound using mplayer in linux *if* I use -framedrop which will drop frames in order to sync the sound and video. That is a lot more than I got in Windows using PowerDVD. I bought an AGP video card with 32Mb of video ram today. I'll try it first in the Microtel and leave it there if it works right. If not, I'll put it in my other computer and move the drive back there. In this process I've learned quite a bit more about video thanks to a helpful person on the mplayer list. I've been wondering for a few years ever since I put my computer together - what AGP was. I never bothered to look it up. Well, now I know. Very handy info when you are trying to do heavy video work. I may go with ogle after all is said and done, because it really is a very simple program to install and operate. Nice thing about mplayer, though, is that you can use it in console mode. I'm thinking I read something about ogle being able to do that too. I'll check into it. -- Anita GnuPG key: 1024D/9EDAC910 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On 13 Dec 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: > Net Llama! wrote: > > On 13 Dec 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: > > > >>I think the Mr. Llama! uses Mplayer, maybe he's got pointers for you.. I > >>messed with building it once and ran out of time to finish it.. Im sure > >>its a fine player, looks nice anyway.. > > > > > > I use MPlayer for movies, and Xine for DVDs, both without a problem. I'm > > not sure what you mean by running out of time building MPlayer, since it > > builds faster than Xine. > > > > screaming kid and grouchy wife.. nuff said.. =) A...yes. Been there, done that. :) -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
Net Llama! wrote: On 13 Dec 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: I think the Mr. Llama! uses Mplayer, maybe he's got pointers for you.. I messed with building it once and ran out of time to finish it.. Im sure its a fine player, looks nice anyway.. I use MPlayer for movies, and Xine for DVDs, both without a problem. I'm not sure what you mean by running out of time building MPlayer, since it builds faster than Xine. screaming kid and grouchy wife.. nuff said.. =) --jim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On 13 Dec 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: > I think the Mr. Llama! uses Mplayer, maybe he's got pointers for you.. I > messed with building it once and ran out of time to finish it.. Im sure > its a fine player, looks nice anyway.. I use MPlayer for movies, and Xine for DVDs, both without a problem. I'm not sure what you mean by running out of time building MPlayer, since it builds faster than Xine. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Anita Lewis wrote: > Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and > use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. I > then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still have > the thing set to scd0. > > So, I now get the movie going just fine at the right speed with audio. Very > nice for about 15 seconds and then the audio cuts out. The video keeps > going which makes me think that the bus speed is ok. Anyone here know > anything about this? Maybe MPlayer is a little complex for the job. I was > going to try Xine, but I saw that they don't decode. I had to install the > lib for css separately for MPlayer too; so maybe that is what you do with > Xine. Go with Xine. Its worth all the extra effort. See my SxS for building Xine, and its very easy to build. MPlayer is a great movie player, but i've had loads of problems trying to get it to work right with DVDs, while Xine has always worked perfectly for DVDs. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DVD for Linux - audio problem
Anita Lewis wrote: Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. I then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still have the thing set to scd0. So, I now get the movie going just fine at the right speed with audio. Very nice for about 15 seconds and then the audio cuts out. The video keeps going which makes me think that the bus speed is ok. Anyone here know anything about this? Maybe MPlayer is a little complex for the job. I was going to try Xine, but I saw that they don't decode. I had to install the lib for css separately for MPlayer too; so maybe that is what you do with Xine. MPlayer mentions possible buggy sound driver in their docs, but the sound is perfect for that short time. I am using ogle and it works well. You may want to try it. Im using the ALSA sound drivers, some toshiba? 16x DVD drive, SoundBlaster live card, on a 2.8hgz p4 512mb ram and radeon9000 video card.. Im _not_ using scsi emulation on my drive I found the playback to be choppy. Once I removed the emulation and cranked up DMA it was fine.. Didnt trouble shoot the scsi emulation more than that though. I think the Mr. Llama! uses Mplayer, maybe he's got pointers for you.. I messed with building it once and ran out of time to finish it.. Im sure its a fine player, looks nice anyway.. best regards- Jim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
DVD for Linux - audio problem
Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. I then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still have the thing set to scd0. So, I now get the movie going just fine at the right speed with audio. Very nice for about 15 seconds and then the audio cuts out. The video keeps going which makes me think that the bus speed is ok. Anyone here know anything about this? Maybe MPlayer is a little complex for the job. I was going to try Xine, but I saw that they don't decode. I had to install the lib for css separately for MPlayer too; so maybe that is what you do with Xine. MPlayer mentions possible buggy sound driver in their docs, but the sound is perfect for that short time. -- Anita GnuPG key: 1024D/9EDAC910 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
