Up till now I have never needed/wanted to watch a DVD on my Linux box (I have a DVD player for that) but since my player went on the blink I thought I would set this up. Thats when my problems started.
RH9
Downloaded mplayer tarball and win32 codecs and went for an install; multiple missing files. Didn't fancy trying to track down all those files so...
Downloaded xine and xine_ui rpm's and installed. Tested could play various video files. Everything looked OK. Had to set up a symlink to my DVD player so checked with dmesg:
hdb: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-114 0125, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
and then created the symlink:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 8 23:47 /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdb
Everything should now be OK, so stuck in a DVD ('Family Guy' if you are interested) and ran xine and pressed the DVD button on the UI.
Results?
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-beta12 from
http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access
libdvdnav: Can't seek to block 32
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/gary/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
xine-check reports [good] on all checks.
Played around with this for a while but still couldn't see a reference to the missing map file, and didn't think that was causing my problem.
Then the lightbulb finally came on and I installed apt4rpm (forgot to install this again when I put RH9 on) and then one quick apt-get update, apt-get install mplayer, and I thought I was in business. _thought_
mplayer -dvd 1
Results?
Playing DVD title 1
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!
OK so now I have tried both Xine and mplayer and failed to get them to work. I then decide to check that my actual DVD access is working so stick in a LinuxFormat DVD. Checking with dmesg I get:
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
so it looks like maybe the drive access is the problem rather than the software.
Anybody any ideas as to how to get this to work?
All help gratefully received.
Flibble
