See my sig for links to the xine binaries. They correct the broken version shipped with most distros, and can easily play DVD. Yeah, it's a good marketing ploy, show them how pretty it is on a limited live cd and watch them flock to buy it. It seems to be paying off, it worked on me at least. I also like the enormous package selection SuSE pro ships with. It saves me a lot of downloading, even know I am the only happy satellite customer Direcway seems to have these days.

I have been running 8.2 for a year now and basically was so happy with it that I stopped using W2K.
Unfortunately due to a major screwup on my part it has been damaged but my personal data is still there.
I have ordered 9.1 today plus the latest fixes.
It should arrive at the end of the week.

I have SuSe 9.1 Professional version, but of course this is my very first experience with Linus, so I can't compare with anything else!

Thanks. It works almost fine. It is telling me now that I need to update my x server. It doesn't have xvideo, etc. Also I need to have DMA for my DVD player to start automatically when the system boots. Of course I am doing this just to do it. For the record once I have it working if it is illegal in my country I will of course get rid of it....





Webwolf

Of course you will. Have you run an online update in YaST? I don't know why it would tell you it needs a newer version of Xfree86. Are you sure you downloaded the correct binaries?

I am not sure either. This is what I get when I run xine-check.

""[ hint ] DMA is disabled for your DVD interface.
This will probably result in a serious performance hit when
playing DVDs. You can issue the command
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdg
as root to enable DMA. It would be wise to add this command to
some script that is executed executed at boot time.
Note that you probably have to set the DMA mode for your drive as well.
Most DVD-ROMs work fine with multiword DMA mode 2. You can use
hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdg
(as root again) to set this mode. Maybe UDMA2 will give you even better
performance, but it only works well with some controllers. You'll
probably need UDMA capable IDE cables for this mode. If you want
to try: make backups of your important data and type (as root again)
sync
hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdg
If your System still works fine after this, you probably want to keep
these settings (add them to some boot script).
If your system hangs or behaves very strangely after a few minutes, you
should reboot immediately and never use this setting again on this
machine. Good luck ;-)
press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays.
That means xine will have to to color space transformation and scaling
in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
X server will help here.
If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support...
XVideo is an X server extension introduced by XFree86 4.x. This
extension provides access to hardware accelerated color space
conversion and scaling, which gives a great performance boost.
If you have a fast (>1GHz) machine, you may be able to watch all
kinds of video, anyway. You will waste lots of CPU cycles, though...
press <enter> to continue...""

Webwolf

For DVD playback you will need to download some different packages namely:

libxine
libdvdcss-1.2.8.tar.gz
libdvdread
libdvdnav
libxine1-dvd
kaffeine (this is optional since it is just a gui for xine and any xine gui will work but this is clean looking and has a great layout)

most of these are contained on the SuSE 9.1 pro disk but due to legal reasons the versions contained on the disks are locked and will not play DVD's along with the listed packages Id also recommend:

libxine1-w32dll
w32codec

these will let you use xine to play just about any movie media out there (.WMV .AVI .rm .mpg)


all these files except libdvdcss can be found on Packman, all the rpms on this site are compiled for SuSE linux and work perfectly though you may get an error from YaST saying you need certain packages installed first, if you know that package is installed chose to install despite package inconsistencies. The packages I listed should be in order of how they should be installed. Lastly for the libdvdcss package do a google search for it and you should be able to find it no problem, just note that I have had issues using an RPM version so you would be best finding a tar.gz file it should be 267.3 kb.

hope this info helps you out with DVD issues.

maybe its just me, but i hated suse. although it looks good, i dont like it.

YOU is extremly slow and buggy and is a POS compared to apt. in the pro version, the shell commands "updatedb" and "locate <whatever>" are missing and is a major pain in the ass. overall, its just too slow for me.

im going back to mepis now cause i liked it better than suse.