On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:

Boris Epstein wrote:

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Dog Walker wrote:

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Anybody able to play DVD movies in 11.1 using kaffeine? Or xine?

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Yes, I am... Though I don't remember what exactly I had to do to get there.

Boris.

I do - ignore those and get VLC

I can play DVDs with mplayer, but not with kaffeine nor xine. But it seems the problem lies with xine. I did uninstall then reinstall kaffeine: think that doing the same with xine might work?

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Dog Walker wrote:

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I can play DVDs with mplayer, but not with kaffeine nor xine. But it seems the problem lies with xine. I did uninstall then reinstall kaffeine: think that doing the same with xine might work?

That's because MPlayer has libdvdcss built into it(as does VLC I believe).  Since libdvdcss is technically illegal is the US. UK , and other countries, it can't be included in openSUSE.  Further, the MPEG2 compression used by DVDs is patented, and you are legally required to pay a royality to the MPEG association in order to play files using MPEG2.  Programs like PowerDVD have licensed MPEG2.

This is a real grey area for many countries.  Personally, I would recommend sticking with MPlayer and install one of the helper programs like SMPlayer.  MPlayer and VLC are more powerful and feature rich than Xine/Kaffine, and everything you need is built-in. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Dog Walker wrote:

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Dog Walker wrote:

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I can play DVDs with mplayer, but not with kaffeine nor xine. But it seems the problem lies with xine. I did uninstall then reinstall kaffeine: think that doing the same with xine might work?

That's because MPlayer has libdvdcss built into it(as does VLC I believe). Since libdvdcss is technically illegal is the US. UK , and other countries, it can't be included in openSUSE. Further, the MPEG2 compression used by DVDs is patented, and you are legally required to pay a royality to the MPEG association in order to play files using MPEG2. Programs like PowerDVD have licensed MPEG2.

This is a real grey area for many countries. Personally, I would recommend sticking with MPlayer and install one of the helper programs like SMPlayer. MPlayer and VLC are more powerful and feature rich than Xine/Kaffine, and everything you need is built-in. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

I am using MPlayer now, but prefer Kaffeine's onscreen mouse-selectable menus.

Your above requirement works just great in VLC !!! -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 28 Jul 2009 06:24:12 David Haller wrote:

Hello,

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Dog Walker wrote: [..]

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I am using MPlayer now, but prefer Kaffeine's onscreen mouse-selectable menus.

gmplayer and vlc have those. Or do you mean the on-DVD-menues? I've come across some that mplayer and even vlc 'hang' on, while xine shows them correct, yes. Effing on-purpose defective discs.

Basically: I use xine to look at the menues/titles etc. when vlc hangs (or takes ages), and for everything else (i.e. specifically the actual viewing) I prefer mplayer for it's keyboard handling (seeking, pause/play/speed/single-step, volume, subtitles, delay (audio and subtitle), brightness, contrast, ...). Just have a look at ~/.mplayer/input.conf (or /etc/mplayer/input.conf).

-dnh

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Every thing you need is on Pacman i have 11.1 playing DVD's using xine did noy=t bother with Kaffeine this time because i am using KDE4.2.9 on the laptop and the Pacman Kaffeine is for KDE3 so xine with the xine-gui works fine it's all on there . It does a nice job of playing Audio CD's as well which is mor than can be said for that pieceof **()(*&**( called KSCD what the hell is that . Have fun Pete .