Brand New DVD Error (I cannot get Xine to play DVDs)

Lleb_KCir · 11-20-2004, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 54az
No i can`t get it to work i`m using suse 9.0 pro and really struggling

i understand the strugles. to get to the point of that HOWTO took me over a month and that was getting help here and from my LUG. i had a HUGE learning curve to overcome as the only *nix i had any experiance with before was RH9. so to A. jump into Debian (not the most newbie friendly) B. try to get *nix to push vid out the s-vid side of my Nvidia card were not easy.

if you are not married to SuSe (good distro i have played with it and like it) then you might want to take a crack at what i have posted there.

if you follow those steps you could be up and running in roughly 1-2hrs depending on how fast your hardware and internet connection are.

i can do that on an old AMD 1.1G Athlon (first gen socket A) with 1G pc133 ram and 5400rpm HDs in under 1hr. i do have a very fat pipe on my cable for downloads and can often see over 300kb/sec so that helps with the apt-get installs and updates.

Adrohak · 11-20-2004, 05:54 PM

I, unfortunately, only have two boxes. On this box, I am very much loyally married to Slackware, and the other is only a Pentium 2, 233MHz.

Lleb_KCir · 11-20-2004, 06:00 PM

even the P2 should be enough power... is slack apt-get or yum?

in either case you might be able to get kde, kaffeine, and the codec packs working for you in the way that howto discribes, you would just have to spend the time researching your source.list or yum.conf for getting the dinnaries you need/want.

54az · 11-20-2004, 06:03 PM

Been on linux now for 6 days my knoleg=dged of dos is 10 prnt"something"
etc so really struggling thank god for google might sound dumb but whats slackware?

Adrohak · 11-20-2004, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lleb_KCir
even the P2 should be enough power... is slack apt-get or yum?

in either case you might be able to get kde, kaffeine, and the codec packs working for you in the way that howto discribes, you would just have to spend the time researching your source.list or yum.conf for getting the dinnaries you need/want.

The problem with the P2 is.. Well, it has 2MB video RAM. One of the reasons for my upgrade from that to this box (I only built this P4 about three weeks ago) was so I could watch DVDs. The P2 only has a AGP 1x slot, so there isn't much room for upgrading.

Adrohak · 11-21-2004, 07:35 AM

I decided to try out using mplayer with dvd://2 instead of dvd://1, and I got a new error:

Code:

Playing dvd://2.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 5 titles on this DVD.
There are 2 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
*** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:1163
    for c_adt->zero_1 = 0x0007
libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_02_0.IFO).
Cannot open the IFO file for DVD title 2.

Anyone know how to fix that? :\

hippyhenge · 11-21-2004, 07:45 AM

im not sure if this helps but i use mepis 2004.04 and to get dvd playback for xine this is what i did:
apt-get install libdvdread3
then in konsole as root i did the following:
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh

when done i put in a dvd and it played brilliantly

good luck

Adrohak · 11-21-2004, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by hippyhenge
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh

I don't have that shell script.

mykrob · 11-21-2004, 04:07 PM

side note:

for any users who are running a distribution that can install RPM packages, go here and install the RPM's provided. This will take care of your DVD issues, or at least it should..

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

-myk

Adrohak · 11-21-2004, 04:38 PM

I followed the RPM instructions (given, I used Slackware's rpm2tgz tool) to get Xine running... No dice. In fact, the GUI pops up for just a second then the program exits--no error message or anything.

Edit: Also, just for kicks and giggles, I used regionset to set my DVD drive's region to one (the region for American History X), and that didn't help either.

windowsrefugeeX · 11-22-2004, 04:56 PM

hey did u setup ur xine? i mean fine u got it install no problem from source or rpms cool, but within xine there's also a setup have u try that?

If not could it b ur dvd player? can u read dvds @ all such as games data music etc...

Adrohak · 11-23-2004, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by windowsrefugeeX
hey did u setup ur xine? i mean fine u got it install no problem from source or rpms cool, but within xine there's also a setup have u try that?

If not could it b ur dvd player? can u read dvds @ all such as games data music etc...

On the American History X DVD, Xine plays the opening chapter, the one with the warning and 'New Line Home Entertainment,' but fails to play anything that is encrypted. Also, I can burn and read unencrypted data DVDs with the DVD drive.

windowsrefugeeX · 11-23-2004, 05:53 PM

interesting mmmm besides all of the libraries mm here try this site
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

mostly likely u've cing this page b4 dunno thou

do keep us posted thou, I'll keep asking i know somebody that i know had the same problem but that person solved the problem @least 4 thyself.

wiresquire · 12-25-2004, 03:20 AM

Any updates on this?

I'm now getting the same problems as Adrohak has described on several threads. I'm using SUSE 9.1. I have had DVDs working previously - even encrypted ones, but a new one I got for xmas won't work. I'm not sure what's going on. I also updated to the latest MPlayer (pre 6) hoping that would fix it, but it's the same errors as the pre5 I was running previoulsy.

I'm pretty sure that decss is installed OK. In a terminal I entered
export DVDCSS_VERBOSE=2
and it seemed to get through the keys OK.

Code:

libdvdcss debug: opening target `/dev/dvd'
libdvdcss debug: using libc for access
libdvdcss debug: disc is scrambled
libdvdcss debug: requesting AGID
libdvdcss debug: drive authenticated, using variant 0
libdvdcss debug: authentication established
libdvdcss debug: GetASF authenticated, ASF=1
libdvdcss debug: decrypting disc key with player keys
libdvdcss debug: decrypted disc key is [xx:xx:xx:xx:xx]
libdvdcss debug: using CSS key cache dir: /home/userxxx/.mplayer/DVDKeys//CDNAME#0000000000000000/
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 5 titles on this DVD.
There are 62 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_01_0.IFO).
Cannot open the IFO file for DVD title 1.

The last 2 are the same as Adrohak's been getting

Any thoughts?

TIA
ws

daihard · 12-25-2004, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by wiresquire
I'm now getting the same problems as Adrohak has described on several threads. I'm using SUSE 9.1. I have had DVDs working previously - even encrypted ones, but a new one I got for xmas won't work. I'm not sure what's going on. I also updated to the latest MPlayer (pre 6) hoping that would fix it, but it's the same errors as the pre5 I was running previoulsy.

Which DVD did you just try and fail to get to work? I'd like to try it myself to see if the problem has anything to do with the rumoured "new encryption" format.