Istvan Gabor schreef:

2010. május 4. 15:31 napon Koenraad Lelong <k.lelong@ace-electronics.be> írta:

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Hi, My recently installed OS11.2 has a problem playing DVD's. I'm using KDE as desktop-environment. When using kaffeine, I only can use one specific drive to play the DVD. When I put it in the other drive the dvd-disk is not found. Also, when I put some disk in a drive, there is a pop-up wich shows the name of the disk (besides the dolphin-icon in the tray). I can select some actions but with a video-dvd, there is no way to activate kaffeine, or another video-player. How can I add such an action ?

Hello:

I don't know about kaffeine as I never use it but some DVD player (eg. xine) requires a /dev/dvd device. I would check if in kaffeine the dvd device can be set. You have to set it then to /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 depending on which device you want to use. Probably it is possible to set only one device at a time. If you can not set the DVD device in kaffeine then try to find out the name of the device it requires (eg /dev/dvd) and create a symlink in /dev which points to the device you want to use.

Cheers,

Istvan

Hi Istvan, Thanks for your reply. Like I said, I can play dvd's, but only in one specific drive. I can access both drives as data-disks. I'm going to make sure other media-players behave the same. I know my previous suse-installation (10.something) had no troubles when I put the dvd-disk in either drive, it just worked. So I presumed a newer version would behave the same. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Op 06-05-10 11:47, Istvan Gabor schreef: ...

First I would make sure that the DVD you put in the drive is recognized by the system. Eg. using dmesg and look at the last lines after inserting the DVD, or DVD icon placed on the desktop, etc. I would try to find out the device for the DVD drive (/dev/sr0, /dev/sr1 etc.)

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In the meantime I started kaffeine (0.8.8) and I see that under 'settings' I can choose from or set two player-engines: Kaffeine-Gstreamer and Kaffein-xine. Dependinf on which one you choose you can set the DVD drive as:

1. for xine engine: settings -> xine engine parameters -> media -> beginner options: dvd.device 2. for gstreamer: settings -> gstreamer engine parameters -> media

Try to change these according to the values of your drives and check if you can play DVDs.

Istvan

Hi, I finally had some time to investigate more. I was using kaffeine 1.0-pre2, although yast said 0.9+1.0pre2-3.1. That was from openSuse. I just installed a newer version from Packman (1.0pre3.0). That seems to work fine although I didn't test much. Regards, Koenraad Lelong. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org