This is a real stumper. I have had the same exact problem on two different distributions. I had it on FC4, and now I have it on Ubuntu 5.10. I am trying to play DVDs on totem-xine. They play fine if you like silent theatre. I personally like to hear the dialog, music, and cool sound effects when I watch movies, so I decided to download xine-ui. I get sound perfectly fine when using xine-ui. However, the problem is that both totem-xine and xine-ui use the same libraries, so why am I getting sound out of one and not the other? I would really like to consolidate all my multimedia needs to one application (totem-xine), and the only hold out is sound with DVDs. Any help would be appreciated. If you need to know what I have done to set up Ubuntu 5.10 for multimedia, here it is:
Installing multimedia capabilities on Ubuntu 5.10
Make sure the repsoitories are set up in /etc/apt/sources.list as shown below
------------------------------------------/etc/apt/sources.list---------------------------------------------------------------
deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy multiverse
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
deb-src
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
deb-src
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
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$sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following to the end of the file
deb
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install w32codecs
$sudo /etc/apt/sources.list
delete the following from the end of the file:
deb
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install totem-xine
$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins gstreamer0.8-lame gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg
$ sudo apt-get install lame sox ffmpeg mjpegtools vorbis-tools
$ sudo apt-get install libmad0 libdvdread3 libmpeg3-1 msttcorefonts
This next command installs libdvdcss2.
$ sudo /user/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
$ gst-register-0.8
To permanently set DMA to on for DVD player:
$ sudo gedit /etc/hdparm.conf
Add the folowing lines:
/dev/dvd {
DMA = on
}
Save the file and type the following command
$sudo /etc/init.d/hdparm restart
