Hi

I am having problems with DVD playback in SuSE 8.2

I have installed the latest version of ogle, and tried turning on DMA. I did this through YAST2, with the /etc/sys.config editor, so maybe this won't work until I reboot - I'll try it when I get back home.

My other question is about the dependency conflicts I am getting when I install the new ogle (from rpm) - mplayer needs different versions of the the libdvd* files that ogle needs. When I install the new versions of these as rpms mplayer stops working!! Ogle will work, but skips.

I *think* I need to either do a symbolic link to these libdvd* files for mplayer, or maybe the latest version of mplayer will work with these files? At the moment ogle is removed and the old libdvd* files are reinstalled and mplayer works fine for mpegs, avi, etc.

Any help would be appreciated

if you dont enable dma via the command line
but edit a config file
then you'll have to reboot to make it take hold
if the dvd is playing back but skipping
it's highly likely it's the dma

to avoid rebooting, at a terminal (as root)

hdparm -d1 -c1 -k1 /dev/hdx

where x is harddrive and then again for dvd drive

the config script will sort out dma next time you do reboot

Thanks, I'll try that. I still need a hand working out how to install ogle without breaking mplayer? Should I make symbolic links, install the latest verion or are there other fixes?

i'm not sure
i tend to install from rpm's as there is a massive amount of cool stuff for mandrake 9.1

i have mplayer (probably the best thus far), xine and aviplayer
i've had vlc as well before and none of them have clashed or caused each other problems

but i never had much luck with ogle

vlc was the easiest to sort out
it needs a few dep to be added
a52dec, libjpeg, libdvdread, libdvdcss, xml2, and one or two others
vlc was the first media player i got to work

it's all at the http://www.videolan.org site

not an answer to your question i'm afraid but i hope it helps

You could try making symlinks, and if that doesn't work, build mplayer from source. MPlayer has its own internal dvd library anyway - it seems very odd to me that the rpm is built with external dvd support (which is not a default) required.

I think mplayer has its own libdvd* files, but ogle was replacing them with other ones when I installed it. I wasn't aware until just now that mplayer had dvd support - I'll try that with the DMA on and hopefully I will be sorted

Mplayer is still not playing, but xine works perfectly. Thanks for the advice!

Rich