xine and d5d/d4d pluggins
 

Hi,

I am trying to get xine-9.16 to work with the xine-d5d-2.7.1
pluggin, but it won't work. Xine complains that the versions are miss-matched.

Does anyone know which version goes with which version of Xine?

I am running Mandrake 8.2 PPC on an Apple powerbook.

Cheers,
Bernie

I'm using xine-d5d-0.2.7 with xine-0.9.13.
This is more a software question, so I'll move it there.

I will do the plug here. If possible I would suggest using MPlayer instead, as it works much better, and is very self contained.

;)

I tried Mplayer also. I could get it to play mpeg's, but it would not
play DVD's. It decripted it ok, and stored away the key, but refused to play, complaining that the format was wrong ....

It was the "Robin Hood " movie.

maybe that's just an issue of taste....! you probably want the divx4linux package if that's not already installed.

ba ha ha ha, that was evil d00d! No but really, I don't think that it was the movie, I can play any DVD with it. I have never had a problem with a DVD, and I have probably watched over 100, so unless they used some NSA security encription on that, then I would suspect it's not a problem with MPlayer, or maybe you didn't run the correct syntax when you started the DVD.

HTH

I believe the problem with Mplayer not being alble to play DVD's , ah did I say "the problem with Mplayer" .... There is no problem with Mplayer, there is a problem with libdvdread, if it was installed prior Mplayer it breaks Mplayer ability to play DVD's, so make a couple of steps back, remove libdvdread, and recompile Mplayer. Mplayer provides tweaked dvdread, which plays every DVD out there unless DVD is unuable.

Thanks, I will re-try MPlayer.

I did eventually get Xine working, by using a distribution
that used libdvd... instead of D4D/D5D.
It works but has very Jerky video.

Is there any way to speed it up?
I heard something about using hdparm ??:study:

Your dvd-rom needs to be using udma, you can use hdparm to set it. Do "hdparm /dev/hd?" to see what the drive is set to now, "hdparm -i /dev/hd?" to see what it can do and "hdparm -help" to see the commands.