Hello all!
First, let me preface my email with the fact this is for a friend that
I've been boasting SuSE to for a long time and he's extremely impressed
with 8.2 so far! :)
He's got a DVD player in the box and wants to be able to watch movies,
so we've got xine and mplayer installed. Fired both of them up and
"splat!" both barfed on a DVD because of codec and CSS issues.
First thoughts: install codecs from mplayer's site and see if it finds
them? <bzzzt> wrong answer, please try again. (however I think xine saw
them, sort of) So, remove MPlayer and install from source. Presto! it's
working, but he wants the menu options and MPlayer goes straight to the
movie and doesn't offer OSD options.
Now to xine...
xine fires up and he says, "Whoa! It looks like <insert windows DVD prog
here>!" and I must say, it's a great program, but we've got a problem.
I've installed the codecs for MPlayer and it looks in that same
directory for them. So I assume it sees them? (it doesn't or at least it
doesn't know what to do with them) I installed libdvdcss and libcss from
tarballs off the net and then fired up xine and it finally started
playing the DVD.
***Only there's no sound!***
It says something about not being able to do AC3 sound something... but
here's the catch... MPlayer plays the DVD just fine! And MPlayer has AC3
as one of the options in the sound codec fields. So, now to try cooking
xine from source.
BZZZT! I pulled down 3 different tarballs of the xine-lib source and it
configures great and says, "Holy cow! Your box has all kinds of stuff
for me to use on it. You'll be really happy!" So I'm thinking this is
gonna work! Nope, it pukes every time on the make. (to SuSE, how on
earth did you get it to compile?!) I've got pratically every -devel rpm
for every video/X package there is on the box installed. I've got
sourced version of libdvdread, libdvdnav, libcss, libdvdcss,
win32codecs/qtcodecs/rp9codecs, and pretty much anything else you can
think of on this box and it still wont compile! (BTW, it errors out in
the exact same spot every time -- to which I can't post the error b/c
I'm not on that box now -- sorry)
If anyone has any ideas that would help, please send them my way! (I'll
even make a list of notes for anyone wishing to do the same or wanting
help doing any of this) :)
Thanks!
--
Travis Owens
On Tuesday 22 April 2003 03:01, Travis Owens wrote:
Hello all!
First, let me preface my email with the fact this is for a friend that I've been boasting SuSE to for a long time and he's extremely impressed with 8.2 so far! :)
<big snip>
If anyone has any ideas that would help, please send them my way! (I'll even make a list of notes for anyone wishing to do the same or wanting help doing any of this) :)
Thanks!
Can't help you myself but you might want to check www.linux-sxs.org for any step by step instructions.... and when you get everything resolved, either write up a new SxS or modify the one that is there. It's a good source for a lot of info.
On Tuesday 22 April 2003 09:01, Travis Owens wrote:
Hello all!
First, let me preface my email with the fact this is for a friend that I've been boasting SuSE to for a long time and he's extremely impressed with 8.2 so far! :)
He's got a DVD player in the box and wants to be able to watch movies, so we've got xine and mplayer installed. Fired both of them up and "splat!" both barfed on a DVD because of codec and CSS issues. <snip>
I don't know if it will help, but I've used the rpms from packman.links2linux.de for all the xine stuff, and it worked first time out of the chute.. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 8.1 Kernel 2.4.19 KDE 3.1.1 Kmail 1.5.1 For a great linux portal try http://www.freezer-burn.org For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://home.t-online.de/~jroark 4:42pm up 2 days, 19:45, 5 users, load average: 1.71, 1.65, 1.77
On Tuesday 22 April 2003 3:42 pm, Mike wrote:
On Tuesday 22 April 2003 09:01, Travis Owens wrote:
Hello all!
First, let me preface my email with the fact this is for a friend that I've been boasting SuSE to for a long time and he's extremely impressed with 8.2 so far! :)
He's got a DVD player in the box and wants to be able to watch movies, so we've got xine and mplayer installed. Fired both of them up and "splat!" both barfed on a DVD because of codec and CSS issues.
<snip>
I don't know if it will help, but I've used the rpms from packman.links2linux.de for all the xine stuff, and it worked first time out of the chute..
Mike
Well I'm using SuSE 8.2 and I got MPlayer working using the packages at packman. Xine from packman wouldn't do encrypted DVDs, nor even showed "DVD" on the controller. What did work for Xine, and didn't affect MPlayer, was to download the Daily xine builds (with CSS) packages from http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/. Geoff Horn
I have the same problem with Xine. You might want to try Ogle at: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Yes they are right the Red Hat rpms do install OK on SuSE. the only problem is that it doesn't create a menu item. So you can create your own or type in ogle from a terminal console. It donesn't look as nice as Xine but this one works unlike Xine. On Tuesday 22 April 2003 02:01 am, Travis Owens wrote:
Hello all!
First, let me preface my email with the fact this is for a friend that I've been boasting SuSE to for a long time and he's extremely impressed with 8.2 so far! :)
He's got a DVD player in the box and wants to be able to watch movies, so we've got xine and mplayer installed. Fired both of them up and "splat!" both barfed on a DVD because of codec and CSS issues.
First thoughts: install codecs from mplayer's site and see if it finds them? <bzzzt> wrong answer, please try again. (however I think xine saw them, sort of) So, remove MPlayer and install from source. Presto! it's working, but he wants the menu options and MPlayer goes straight to the movie and doesn't offer OSD options.
Now to xine...
xine fires up and he says, "Whoa! It looks like <insert windows DVD prog here>!" and I must say, it's a great program, but we've got a problem. I've installed the codecs for MPlayer and it looks in that same directory for them. So I assume it sees them? (it doesn't or at least it doesn't know what to do with them) I installed libdvdcss and libcss from tarballs off the net and then fired up xine and it finally started playing the DVD.
***Only there's no sound!***
It says something about not being able to do AC3 sound something... but here's the catch... MPlayer plays the DVD just fine! And MPlayer has AC3 as one of the options in the sound codec fields. So, now to try cooking xine from source.
BZZZT! I pulled down 3 different tarballs of the xine-lib source and it configures great and says, "Holy cow! Your box has all kinds of stuff for me to use on it. You'll be really happy!" So I'm thinking this is gonna work! Nope, it pukes every time on the make. (to SuSE, how on earth did you get it to compile?!) I've got pratically every -devel rpm for every video/X package there is on the box installed. I've got sourced version of libdvdread, libdvdnav, libcss, libdvdcss, win32codecs/qtcodecs/rp9codecs, and pretty much anything else you can think of on this box and it still wont compile! (BTW, it errors out in the exact same spot every time -- to which I can't post the error b/c I'm not on that box now -- sorry)
If anyone has any ideas that would help, please send them my way! (I'll even make a list of notes for anyone wishing to do the same or wanting help doing any of this) :)
Thanks!
participants (5)
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Bruce Marshall
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Geoff Horn
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Mike
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Paul Benjamin
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Travis Owens