Setting up Xine to play DVD
I feel like a newbie here (maybe I am in a way). I am setting up xine and am attempting to play DVD's with the drive. I am able to play DVD's with mplayer so I know the drive works and must be configured. Also I am able to burn video DVD's since I have played them with mplayer and with my DVD players. So I am confused with what I am missing with xine.
I do not get a DVD button with xine. I have CD, VCD and VCDO Here is the output from xine-check Please be patient, this script may take a while to run... [ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests [ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted. [ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.4.22) [ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support [ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set. [ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine [ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH [ good ] found /usr/bin/xine-config in your PATH Usage: xine-config [OPTIONS] [LIBRARIES] Options: [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--version] [--libs] [--acflags] [--cflags] [--plugindir] [--datadir] [--scriptdir] [--localedir] [ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0 exists. [ good ] found input plugins [ good ] found demux plugins [ good ] found decoder plugins [ good ] found video_out plugins [ good ] found audio_out plugins [ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/sr1 [ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/sr0 [ hint ] Your DVD drive seems not to be attached via ATAPI. This might be due to the use of an ide-scsi emulation. If you really have a SCSI DVD drive, your SCSI controller is likely to do perfect DMA, so there's no reason to worry about this. However, if you're using ide-scsi, there is a chance that DMA is disabled for the DVD drive. Moreover, I don't know how to enable DMA in that case, so you probably have to live with some performance loss. (FIXME: check for /proc/ide, provide solution) press <enter> to continue... [ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2 [ good ] your Xv extension supports YUV overlays (improves MPEG performance) [ good ] your Xv extension supports packed YUV overlays [ good ] Xv ports: YUY2 UYVY YV12 I420 THe version of xine This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.23. (c) 2000-2003 The xine Team. I have installed libdvdread and libdvdcss although I am attempting to play a dvd+rw that I created that should not be encrypted. Ideas? Brian |
it means that xine can't found /dev/dvd which was the link it use to determine which your dvd drive are.
i assume that you know how to eject your dvd drive in terminal. here is an example. i says that my dvd drive was /dev/scd0 which was scsi emulated. say you use "eject /dev/scd0" to eject my dvd drive. then the only thing you need to do was login as root and do "ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd" which links your device /dev/scd0 as /dev/dvd. |
Uhh, the poster's xine-check command already eliminated that possibility. Sorry - but this guy doesn't have a solution yet.
From my own side - I have a tendancy of installing and compiling xine and it's components from source. |
Thanks for the hint
Well, I was unable to compile but I found that I did not have a plugin that was needed in the binary RPM that downloaded. Put that in and now it works.
Thanks for your time! Brian |
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