On 16/06/05, David Johanson wrote:

Requesting still more help on my two installs of 9.3; one at work, the other at home.

Not having ANY luck with getting xine or the like to function, I was pointed by a colleague to: http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/dvdplay/

Now this is one nice site and I highly recommend it to anyone having problems playing video media. I followed the instructions at work and bingo, dvds now PLAY perfectly, but still no sound, so that remains an issue, and one I'd love to solve.

At home with an identical install and current updates - granted different box -- the install resulted in two problems. First, running xine gives the following error (the first time I ran xine a very nice configure xine dialog appeared but I can't find how to get it back): - xine engine error - There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/". Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file /stream source doesn't exist.

Second, running kaffeine gives the following error: xine Message - Kaffeine Player No plugin found to handle this resource (dvd:/).

Seems odd that following the same set of instructions, step by step identically, can give such different results.

Any thoughts on this problem are welcome.

thanks,

dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3

Excellent URL, David. Thank you. I've been trying for about 12 months to get DVD's that I have legally purchased and, most likely, were recordings of films rendered on Linux machines. I have never succeeded yet despite following instructions to the letter. There have even been the odd post on here about if it doesn't work then I must be doing something wrong! Which are of course very helpful :-( I shall try this very simple method. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR