Hi, all -- I've been casually looking at the "play DVDs under Linux" struggle for years now but haven't stayed much up to date. Can I yet watch DVD movies on my laptop equipped with a DVD-ROM(/CD-RW) drive? If so, there is probably an RPM for it in my 8.1 package :-) though perhaps not because of silly US legislation :-( At any rate, please let me know where I need to go and what I need to get to do so. TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
On Monday 01 September 2003 6:11 pm, David T-G wrote:
Hi, all --
I've been casually looking at the "play DVDs under Linux" struggle for years now but haven't stayed much up to date. Can I yet watch DVD movies on my laptop equipped with a DVD-ROM(/CD-RW) drive? If so, there is probably an RPM for it in my 8.1 package :-) though perhaps not because of silly US legislation :-( At any rate, please let me know where I need to go and what I need to get to do so.
You need to get xine or mplayer from packman. If you have apt make sure packman is in your sources.list. If not you can get it from http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.1-i386/RPMS.packman/ or from http://packman.links2linux.org/index.php4?action=125&vn=3 -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
Franklin, et al -- ...and then Franklin Maurer said... % % On Monday 01 September 2003 6:11 pm, David T-G wrote: % > % > years now but haven't stayed much up to date. Can I yet watch DVD movies % > on my laptop equipped with a DVD-ROM(/CD-RW) drive? If so, there is ... % > % You need to get xine or mplayer from packman. Ah. I have mplayer (v0.90pre6-3.2 from the 8.1 install), but it isn't the packman version. [Hmmm... It does mention "-dvd <titleno>" so perhaps it knows DVD, too.] So that understands the table of contents and such and I can just watch the movie? Way cool! Can't wait to try it in the morning :-) % If you have apt make sure packman is in your sources.list. % If not you can get it from % % http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.1-i386/RPMS.packman/ Oh, nice. % % or from % % http://packman.links2linux.org/index.php4?action=125&vn=3 Gotcha. Thanks & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:52 am, David T-G wrote:
Franklin, et al --
...and then Franklin Maurer said... % % On Monday 01 September 2003 6:11 pm, David T-G wrote: % > % > years now but haven't stayed much up to date. Can I yet watch DVD movies % > on my laptop equipped with a DVD-ROM(/CD-RW) drive? If so, there is ... % > % You need to get xine or mplayer from packman.
Ah. I have mplayer (v0.90pre6-3.2 from the 8.1 install), but it isn't the packman version. <snipped> You'll need a different version than the one on the cd. For legal reasons xine amd mplayer are broken(legal) so get the one from packman and its dependencies(libxine,libxine alsa, libxine dvd, xine ui ...)
There's no need to cc me. I'll read it on the list. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
Franklin, et al -- ...and then Franklin Maurer said... % ... % You need to get xine or mplayer from packman. I got mplayer, and all of the other pieces it needed; I had mplayer but it didn't have the css code. Now, and after a convenient link of /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom, I can play my movie; woo hoo! Audio is great (almost always perfectly smooth), but the video is very burst-y. Any idea what I can do to make things smoother, perhaps by buffering the read from the disc? Thanks & TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:51 am, David T-G wrote:
Audio is great (almost always perfectly smooth), but the video is very burst-y. Any idea what I can do to make things smoother, perhaps by buffering the read from the disc?
Make sure your DMA is active. Do hdparm /dev/<whatever_your_dvd is> d should = 1 if not set it in the SuSEconfig settings or from the command line hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx richard
Richard, et al -- ...and then Richard said... % % On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:51 am, David T-G wrote: % > Audio is great (almost always perfectly smooth), but the video is very % > burst-y. Any idea what I can do to make things smoother, perhaps by % > buffering the read from the disc? % % Make sure your DMA is active. Do % hdparm /dev/<whatever_your_dvd is> Hmmm... That doesn't seem to work for me: davidtg@hussy:~> ls -lF /dev/sr0 brw------- 1 davidtg disk 11, 0 Sep 9 2002 /dev/sr0 davidtg@hussy:~> hdparm /dev/sr0 /dev/sr0 not supported by hdparm davidtg@hussy:~> sudo hdparm /dev/sr0 /dev/sr0 not supported by hdparm Maybe because this is a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive instead of a hard disk? Thanks & TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:04:49 -0400 David T-G <davidtg-suse-linux-e@justpickone.org> wrote:
Maybe because this is a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive instead of a hard disk?
You should enable DMA for the underlying IDE device and not the SCSII. For example my CD burner is /dev/sr0, but it is actually the primary on the second IDE so I have to enable /dev/hdc. Charles -- There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a threaded news reader. (Unknown source)
--=.:+WIb+P(htlm(1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I forgot to add, my previous post assumes that you cdr is an IDE device, but you are using SCSII emulation. Charles -- "On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT" (Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, restrugo@fateware.com) --=.:+WIb+P(htlm(1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/VL/T3epPyyKbwPYRAs5LAKDEkcW8GLaS5/SLtMC5UEc8ohvmnwCeMAPG 90ke1zT1JBhzVSwaPyqafkc= =xSdA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.:+WIb+P(htlm(1--
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:04, David T-G wrote:
Richard, et al --
...and then Richard said... % % On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:51 am, David T-G wrote: % > Audio is great (almost always perfectly smooth), but the video is very % > burst-y. Any idea what I can do to make things smoother, perhaps by % > buffering the read from the disc? % % Make sure your DMA is active. Do % hdparm /dev/<whatever_your_dvd is>
Hmmm... That doesn't seem to work for me:
davidtg@hussy:~> ls -lF /dev/sr0 brw------- 1 davidtg disk 11, 0 Sep 9 2002 /dev/sr0 davidtg@hussy:~> hdparm /dev/sr0 /dev/sr0 not supported by hdparm davidtg@hussy:~> sudo hdparm /dev/sr0 /dev/sr0 not supported by hdparm
Guys, do this in YAST2, they have a facility for setting that. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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