Playing DVDs in Debian?
 

Just installed Sarge, and besides the weird gnome icon problems, I can't play DVDs with Totem or Xine. I can using Fedora Core 1 and 2, but as soon as a DVD is selected from the "open" menu, Debian dumps me back out to the login prompt.

Hmm have you installed the lib libdvdcss, libdvdnav and libdvdplay libraries? Does xine have the plugins available for DVD?

I can explain the gnome-icons: at the moment gnome in testing is upgraded to 2.6. It now contains a mix of gnome 2.4 and gnome 2.6. More things don't work: I've heard (and experienced) problems starting gedit and gnumeric, gpdf doesn't work properly and now my gnome-applets are messed up :(. I've switched to enlightenment temporarily... I'm afraid the inconvenience will last some time...

I loaded everything I could find with "dvd" in the name... same thing. hmmm... as soon as I open Xine, it dumps me back to the login prompt - I'm not even left with an oppotunity to try a file or dvd. I had good luck with Mplayer in FC1 and 2, but can't seem to find a copy for Sarge... Totem and Xine seem pretty twitchy to me - not much luck using them. I can't even get to the Xine meny to see what I've got as far as plug-ins...

Maybe a more stable Debian release is the answer(?).

If you want to use mplayer add

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main

To your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Then simply apt-get update. You'll have all of MPlayer plus a lot of additional files available.

I dont know if it will help but try
as well as the lib's that leonscape mentioned also install libdvdread .

Regards

vlc works great too. Select it from the dselect menu. Oh and this one is capable of viewing divx as well :)

Hey noxious, I just installed Debian sarge too (running GNOME). I haven't tried DVD playback yet, but I know I can't get audio CDs to play :( Can you? I tried inserting a DVD just now but Totem refuses to open, though I see it on the process list :rolleyes:

***EDIT***

Nevermind. I just installed Xine and audio CD worked great, and so did the ripper. I had the permissions set wrong :o DVD playback doesn't work, but I think that's because I haven't installed any libraries for it yet. Anyone have a list of what I should have? :D Thanks

I used the source above to the etc/apt/sources.list file and installed mplayer... along with mplayer came the proper libraries I guess. Now, Xine plays dvds fine, but Mplayer tells me there are errors. I'm finding out that using apt may be a better way to install and update than synaptic.

To tell you the truth, I haven't tried an audio cd yet... I transferred all my mp3s from my main windoze compootur via our home network.