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Distribution: Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2, Windows 2003 Server/Vista/7/XP/2000/NT/98, Ubuntux64, CentOS4.8/5.4
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I had this same problem. It's not so much a DVD codec problem, but more like the video engine is not working. What I did was actually install xine and libxine. Search in the Mandrake Control Center --> software --> install and type in libxine and xine. Install all things related to xine. The thing is that Kaffeine uses Xine to work itself so you need the xine engine. Try that and report back to us.
Distribution: Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2, Windows 2003 Server/Vista/7/XP/2000/NT/98, Ubuntux64, CentOS4.8/5.4
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Originally posted by jappstam12345 Just tried the Xine install which installed win32 codecs etc etc - but get the following message in Kaffeine
No plugin found to handle this resource (/dev/hdc)
ooops - any ideas please - this is driving me nuts
can I please have more info on the following options - I am mere novice who needs talking through each process:
upgraded kdelibs, you may have to reconfigure the engine that kaffeine uses
To play dvds on Linux, you need to install libdvdcss
cheers
This happens to me also. What you do is Open up Kaffeine, then WITHIN Kaffeine, go to ?FILE? and then OPEN DVD and point it to your DVD drive. You may have to do it twice. I know that's weird, but that's what I did to get my Kaffeine working to play DVDs
I am at work using Windows so I can't walk you through it step-by-step.
Originally posted by Micro420 Kaffeine uses the Xine engine so he may have to configure Xine? I remember not even configuring or touching Xine.
Yea I do know that Kaffeine uses xine, but in the past, I have noticed that if you upgrade kdelibs, kaffeine would not work unless you reconfigured it. Maybe this was because both KDE and xine were compiled from source.
Check to see if all your xine packages have matching release numbers. If you have inadvertantly installed or upgraded one of them that is different from the rest (it can happen) you will recieve errors such as this.
E.G. libxine1-1-0.rc5.9.1.101mdk & xine-plugins-1-0.rc5.9.1.101mdk will work together , Whereas,
This may not be your problem but this is what happened to me when i accidentally upgraded libxine1-1-0.rc5.9.1.101mdk to libxine1-1-0.rc6a.0.1plf.i586.rpm. Once i swapped it back everything worked fine.
Anyway, I hope you get your problem sorted out.
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