Playing DVDs in Debian?

noxious · 06-21-2004, 06:14 PM

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.

leonscape · 06-21-2004, 06:33 PM

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

sterrenkijker · 06-22-2004, 07:28 AM

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...

noxious · 06-22-2004, 10:07 AM

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(?).

leonscape · 06-22-2004, 02:43 PM

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.

Axo · 06-23-2004, 05:02 AM

I dont know if it will help but try

Code:

 dpkg-reconfigure xine

as well as the lib's that leonscape mentioned also install libdvdread .

Regards

dano.1 · 06-23-2004, 04:42 PM

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

R00ts · 06-24-2004, 12:12 AM

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

***EDIT***

Nevermind. I just installed Xine and audio CD worked great, and so did the ripper. I had the permissions set wrong

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?

Thanks

noxious · 06-26-2004, 05:12 PM

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.