This is the latest version, in fact. 0.9.6-0. I keep getting errors about "discontinuity", and then I have to kill the program. <sigh> Wish there were some decent installation doc's, but so it goes.
--Jason
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:29:11 +0100
Jean-François Bocquet
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 02:55:28 -0800 "Jason A.Van Cleve"
wrote: Hi,
I'm having similar troubles, and I'd like to get in on this. But I'm new to Linux (especially multimedia stuff), so bear with me.
The directions below promise to work for me, but they don't quite. I'm running SuSE 7.1 and have symlinked /dev/hdd as /dev/dvd and /dev/raw1 as /dev/rdvd, then used the raw command as advised (all this as root). After reading the man on raw I have some bare understanding of it, but my first question is, is using a raw device the only way to play a DVD, or just one good way? (Xine doesn't offer any good doc's, so I'm really in the dark.)
From all that I read, using a raw device if the most efficient way to play DVD but is not the only one.
After doing all that, I was getting permission errors on both those symlinks, running Xine as myself. su'ed again and added global r/w permissions to /dev/hdd and /dev/raw1 to fix that. Is this a good idea, or not?
If that work, this is a good idea ;)
On my worksation, I have crw-r--r-- root root for /dev/raw1 and that is sufficient.
Well, that gets me to where I can START to play a DVD. I'll see the first segment (the Dreamworks animation), then it stops, and I can't play anything after that. It sort of locks up in fact, and I end up having to kill the whole program.
This can be a XINE bug. I had the same kind of error with XINE 0.9.5 and that was solved with XINE 0.9.6. Try upgrading to the latest version of XINE and see if it work better. You can find all the latest packages of XINE including the plugin to view CSS encoded DVDs at:
http://skyblade.homeip.net/xine/XINE-0.9.6/
Can anyone suggest what I may be missing? Again, I'm not finding any Xine doc's other than a FAQ, a README, and a man page, all of which are very brief and not much good to someone who's never installed a Linux driver. :}
Thanks,
--Jason Van Cleve
HTH, regards... -- Jean-François Bocquet
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