I have tried to get xine to play the sound while viewing a dvd (Signs - Mel Gibson movie). While the picture is great. I get absolutely no sound. I have tried various parameters but no go. I read the audio input and the last part says disk=off. I have installed all the codecs that I can including those for ac3 (a52). I can post any output needed. Might someone point me in the right direction. DVD is 16x, Sound card is SBLive 5.1. Symlinks and permissions are set and correct AFAICT. TIA, Curtis.
On Friday 06 June 2003 13.49, Curtis Rey wrote:
I have tried to get xine to play the sound while viewing a dvd (Signs - Mel Gibson movie). While the picture is great. I get absolutely no sound. I have tried various parameters but no go.
Which version on xine are you using? The one included on the 8.2 CDs was misbuilt, and didn't have sound on DVD movies, just as you describe. If you're running that, get the latest from packman.links2linux.de. If not, post the output you get when you start xine
On Friday 06 June 2003 02:53 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 06 June 2003 13.49, Curtis Rey wrote:
I have tried to get xine to play the sound while viewing a dvd (Signs - Mel Gibson movie). While the picture is great. I get absolutely no sound. I have tried various parameters but no go.
Which version on xine are you using? The one included on the 8.2 CDs was misbuilt, and didn't have sound on DVD movies, just as you describe. If you're running that, get the latest from packman.links2linux.de. If not, post the output you get when you start xine
Yes, it's stock 8.2 xine, I'll get the packman stuff,... Wait.... Uh? Lol ! The list for xine at packman goes from a through p... Should I focus on any particular packages of just install them all? Cheers, Curtis.
On Friday 06 June 2003 23.45, Curtis Rey wrote:
Lol ! The list for xine at packman goes from a through p... Should I focus on any particular packages of just install them all?
first get libxine1, and all the dependencies listed on the libxine page. Then you can, if you want, get xine-ui and the xine skins (although I *much* prefer totem as a xine GUI).
On Friday 06 June 2003 12:46 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 06 June 2003 23.45, Curtis Rey wrote:
Lol ! The list for xine at packman goes from a through p... Should I focus on any particular packages of just install them all?
first get libxine1, and all the dependencies listed on the libxine page. Then you can, if you want, get xine-ui and the xine skins (although I *much* prefer totem as a xine GUI).\
Yep, that did it. Works nicely. Slight latency in vid playback, most likely due to the sound being enable and using some resources. I'll apply the kernel low latencey patches that Charles gave me, They worked well before reinstall of kernel/promise kernel patch. Thanks Again Anders, and others. Cheers, Curtis.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 June 2003 21:38, Curtis Rey wrote:
On Friday 06 June 2003 12:46 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 06 June 2003 23.45, Curtis Rey wrote:
Lol ! The list for xine at packman goes from a through p... Should I focus on any particular packages of just install them all?
first get libxine1, and all the dependencies listed on the libxine page. Then you can, if you want, get xine-ui and the xine skins (although I *much* prefer totem as a xine GUI).\
Yep, that did it. Works nicely. Slight latency in vid playback, most likely due to the sound being enable and using some resources. I'll apply the kernel low latencey patches that Charles gave me, They worked well before reinstall of kernel/promise kernel patch.
Thanks Again Anders, and others.
Cheers, Curtis.
Try that powertweak thing another poster wrote in about before doing a whole kernel job Curtis. It might save you some time. IIRR, he found a place where he changed some latency from 128 to 64 and it's helped a bunch of peopl. Found it! This is what he changed : "hdd_ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY" from 128 to 64 John - -- I needed fresh bugs for my SuSE gecko, and Linux penguin. So I went out and caught this huge ugly blue and red and green and yellow butterfly. They won't need fresh food for 3 months now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+4fv4H5oDXyLKXKQRAt3hAJ43Dy1UwIRpl4YEjPwRFsAkjfajQgCfX3NV 9eMBPtNXzHyDj6/cCywSobE= =7bE2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 09:51:29AM -0500, John wrote: <snip>
Try that powertweak thing another poster wrote in about before doing a whole kernel job Curtis. It might save you some time. IIRR, he found a place where he changed some latency from 128 to 64 and it's helped a bunch of peopl. Found it! This is what he changed : "hdd_ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY" from 128 to 64
Let me just confirm that that worked nicely for me too. I always had very poor quality playback of dvds, and never really thought I'd get to the point where it'd be worth watching... but now I'm a happy camper ;) Got the rpms from packman.links2linux.de, set ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY to 64, and off it went. Cheers, Jon Clausen -- If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap!
On Saturday 07 June 2003 07:51, John wrote:
On Friday 06 June 2003 21:38, Curtis Rey wrote:
On Friday 06 June 2003 12:46 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 06 June 2003 23.45, Curtis Rey wrote:
Lol ! The list for xine at packman goes from a through p... Should I focus on any particular packages of just install them all?
first get libxine1, and all the dependencies listed on the libxine page. Then you can, if you want, get xine-ui and the xine skins (although I *much* prefer totem as a xine GUI).\
Yep, that did it. Works nicely. Slight latency in vid playback, most likely due to the sound being enable and using some resources. I'll apply the kernel low latencey patches that Charles gave me, They worked well before reinstall of kernel/promise kernel patch.
Thanks Again Anders, and others.
Cheers, Curtis.
Try that powertweak thing another poster wrote in about before doing a whole kernel job Curtis. It might save you some time. IIRR, he found a place where he changed some latency from 128 to 64 and it's helped a bunch of peopl. Found it! This is what he changed : "hdd_ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY" from 128 to 64
To John and Jon. Yep. Did this and solved it. Halved both the read and write times for the drive and smooth as silk, no stutter, jerk, or frame jumps. Nice to watch movies on a SyncMaster - just like HDTV! :) Cheers, Curtis.
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 12:14:37AM -0700, Curtis Rey wrote: <snip>
To John and Jon. Yep. Did this and solved it. Halved both the read and write times for the drive and smooth as silk, no stutter, jerk, or frame jumps.
One of us should write it up, and submit it to Togan so it can go in the Unofficial FAQ... Does everybody concur that the complete fix is a: get the pakcages from packman.links2linux.de b: set dma=on for /dev/hd<whatever> c: lower the value of ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY About c: Has anyone tried with anything other than 64?
Nice to watch movies on a SyncMaster - just like HDTV! :)
;) It's funny, though... As soon as I had nice smooth playback, the next thing I did was install xine-ui-aa and libxine1-aa ...in essence; Got nice high-quality screen output, went "wow that's nice", and immediately proceeded to install something that 'degrades' the picture to ascii characters... ;D It's amazing... ;D Incidentally, does anyone know where the ascii-art output goes, when you use aaxine from the conesole? Cheers, Jon Clausen -- If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 June 2003 04:31, Jon Clausen wrote:
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 12:14:37AM -0700, Curtis Rey wrote:
<snip>
To John and Jon. Yep. Did this and solved it. Halved both the read and write times for the drive and smooth as silk, no stutter, jerk, or frame jumps.
One of us should write it up, and submit it to Togan so it can go in the Unofficial FAQ...
Does everybody concur that the complete fix is
a: get the pakcages from packman.links2linux.de b: set dma=on for /dev/hd<whatever> c: lower the value of ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY
About c:
Has anyone tried with anything other than 64?
<small snip>
Cheers, Jon Clausen
Actually, my settings are all still the same from the stock installation, and Xine plays very well for me...no jerkiness, stutters, or anything bad at all. I have dma enabled on my DVD and CD-RW drives, and have a Hercules 3D Prophet2 MX400 graphics card (NVidia) with NVidia's drivers installed. The whole Xine on my system is from packman. So I don't know whay some people are having troubles and some aren't. But you're right...it'd still be good for the FAQ for the folks who *do/are* having troubles. John - -- I needed fresh bugs for my SuSE gecko, and Linux penguin. So I went out and caught this huge ugly blue and red and green and yellow butterfly. They won't need fresh food for 3 months now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+41NTH5oDXyLKXKQRAutcAKC7WBAVMPhptbUeaU/l6RMffUjiwQCfek4U 42cP6VF455H9/dwHuAgrNVM= =c1Dr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sunday 08 June 2003 01:31, Jon Clausen wrote:
One of us should write it up, and submit it to Togan so it can go in the Unofficial FAQ...
Does everybody concur that the complete fix is
a: get the pakcages from packman.links2linux.de b: set dma=on for /dev/hd<whatever> c: lower the value of ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY
About c:
Has anyone tried with anything other than 64?
I've never had to do the c: bit, but the rest is correct. Oh, and I had a DVD drive that had no country code set (and I'll be damned if I'm going to set it). Xine allowed me to set it to 0, and then it played dvds from US and Australia. (Cool!). -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Sunday 08 June 2003 23:52, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 08 June 2003 01:31, Jon Clausen wrote:
One of us should write it up, and submit it to Togan so it can go in the Unofficial FAQ...
Does everybody concur that the complete fix is
a: get the pakcages from packman.links2linux.de b: set dma=on for /dev/hd<whatever> c: lower the value of ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY
About c:
Has anyone tried with anything other than 64?
I've never had to do the c: bit, but the rest is correct. Oh, and I had a DVD drive that had no country code set (and I'll be damned if I'm going to set it). Xine allowed me to set it to 0, and then it played dvds from US and Australia. (Cool!).
-- _____________________________________ John Andersen So, how does one unset a country code in the DVD?
Cheers, Curtis.
So, how does one unset a country code in the DVD?
In the DVD? You don't - it's burnt in. In the DVD drive? Using a firmware hack. Search the web, then use at your own risk. Alternatively, use a DVD player or software which ignores such trivia! -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003
Curtis Rey wrote:
On Sunday 08 June 2003 23:52, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 08 June 2003 01:31, Jon Clausen wrote:
One of us should write it up, and submit it to Togan so it can go in the Unofficial FAQ...
Does everybody concur that the complete fix is
a: get the pakcages from packman.links2linux.de b: set dma=on for /dev/hd<whatever> c: lower the value of ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY
About c:
Has anyone tried with anything other than 64?
I've never had to do the c: bit, but the rest is correct. Oh, and I had a DVD drive that had no country code set (and I'll be damned if I'm going to set it). Xine allowed me to set it to 0, and then it played dvds from US and Australia. (Cool!).
-- _____________________________________ John Andersen
So, how does one unset a country code in the DVD?
Cheers, Curtis.
If you were using Windows you would go to www.remoteselector.com and obtain a copy of, wait for it, Remote Selector which allows you to ignore the zone system foisted on people. RS also does other things. According to the article in today's newspaper the cost of RS is Euros 20. -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso
On Friday 06 June 2003 04:49, Curtis Rey wrote:
I have tried to get xine to play the sound while viewing a dvd (Signs - Mel Gibson movie). While the picture is great. I get absolutely no sound. I have tried various parameters but no go.
Curtis, Try this! I had the stock xine with 8.1 that didn't work. I followed the link below and the instructions (to a tee), and got everything to work great. Do you get sound with other DVD's? How is your sound with audio CD's?
On Monday 02 June 2003 5:04 am, Hans Krueger wrote:
has anybody got 8.2 to play dvd yet you know the ones we buy and can't watch them
On Monday 02 June 2003 16:38, thom@cavtel.net wrote: I got xine and was pretty astounded. I like taking snapshots of old films with it too. Just do whats on this link (daily rpm bulilds:very easy) and ignore dependency issues from yast: so far all works. You also must enable DMA in Yast. Xine seems to play everything i throw at it so far (incl. divx) and i cant say the same about all the windows programs you need.
After trying this, if it still doesn't work for you, give a shout! Bernd -- "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de St. Exupery
participants (8)
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Anders Johansson
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Basil Chupin
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Bernd
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Curtis Rey
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Derek Fountain
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John
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John Andersen
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Jon Clausen