[SOLVED] Slackware 14.2 (64 bit) won't let me watch DVDs.

TheNutCase · 07-18-2016, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joghi

I too had some serious problems with slackware 14.2 and libdvdcss 1.4.0 as suggested by slackbuilds.org.

As far as I could tell permissions were ok, but xine even refused to play from an undecoded directory with a DVD-filesystem created by dvdauthor, though this had global read- and write permissions (I was quite desperate at this point). VLC build from AlienBobs slackbuild worked.

After reading this post https://mailman.videolan.org/piperma...il/001641.html I downgraded to libdvdcss 1.2.13, as suggested for slackware 14.1 and after that, xine worked out of the box as expected without changing anything else.

Afterwards, I tried a few other versions of libdvdcss and version 1.3.0 is the last one that "worked" for me. The curious thing is, version 1.3.99 which is used in AlienBobs slackbuild for vlc doesn't seem to work with xine for me. As mentioned before, vlc did work. Now I really like to know, what makes my system (and maybe the one of TheNutCase) so special.

Sorry to have to say this, but the end result for me was exactly the same as before

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MarcT · 07-20-2016, 07:24 AM

Could still be a permissions issue.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheNutCase

bash-4.3$ ls -al /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jul 17 16:07 /dev/dvd -> sr0
bash-4.3$

Post results of:

Code:

ls -l /dev/sr0
getfacl /dev/sr0

Check your user is a member of group "cdrom".

Example from my system:

Code:

root@anvil:~# ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jul 20 09:13 /dev/dvd -> sr0
root@anvil:~# ls -l /dev/sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jul 20 09:13 /dev/sr0
root@anvil:~# getfacl /dev/sr0
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/sr0
# owner: root
# group: cdrom
user::rw-
user:marc:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

TheNutCase · 07-20-2016, 09:35 AM

And the retults are as follows:

bash-4.3$ ls -l /dev/sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jul 20 09:07 /dev/sr0
bash-4.3$ getfacl /dev/sr0
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/sr0
# owner: root
# group: cdrom
user::rw-
user:doctor:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

joghi · 07-20-2016, 01:35 PM

What might be interesting is the output xine gives, if you start it from an xterm or from konsole. And if you are willing to go quite a long way, you could try to get dvdstyler and dependencies from slackbuilds.org and try to create your own DVD. Not to burn one but only to create a DVD file system somewhere on your hard drive. There is an option that lets you choose that. You could then call xine with

Code:

xine dvd://path_to_DVD_file_system

If it doesn't work with libdvdcss installed, try to temporarily remove libdvdcss. This normally should work, since your DVD file system is not encoded. In this way you could at least try, if for some strange reason you are missing some codecs or so.

TheNutCase · 07-20-2016, 02:16 PM

I think I owe you an apology in that I forgot to mention that I have TWO DVD drives - one internal, and one external (connected via USB 2.0 cable). I have been trying to use the external DVD drive to watch DVDs because my internal one tends to be somewhat noisy

. Anyway, I come to find out that xine is able to access the internal DVD drive to view DVDs, but NOT the external one, and yet my computer is able to recognize and read CDs and DVDs when inserted into my external DVD drive.

. So how then do I get xine to access the external DVD drive?

MarcT · 07-20-2016, 06:27 PM

That's easy. Hopefully.

Open the "Setup Window" in Xine (wrench icon).
In the GUI tab, change the "Configuration Experience Level" to "Master of the known universe" (makes all config options visible).
Switch to the "Media" tab and scroll down a bit until you see "device used for DVD playback". Change the entry from /dev/dvd to /dev/sr1 (probably)
Don't worry about the "raw" device for DVD access. I'm not sure it's needed (and doesn't exist on
Hit "Apply" and you're done.

Now, the question is what device your external DVD appears as. You can use the "lsblk" command to list "block" devices (disks, etc). Look for entries of type "rom".
You might also like to try "ls -l /dev/*dvd*" to see if there are links set up to your second DVD drive. You can use these in Xine if it's more meaningful.

Good luck!

TheNutCase · 07-20-2016, 08:42 PM

That corrected it, so Than you

!!!