Kde 3.4 Dvdplayer

AxXium · 05-20-2005, 10:19 AM

I am looking for suggestions to enable DVD playing.

Some brief info about what I'm running.

Slackware Current 05/16/2005.

I'm using KDE 3.4 at the moment.

Here is what my fstab looks like for the dvdrom

/dev/dvdrom /mnt/dvdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

some more info

# dmesg | grep "^hd"

hdc: LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Here are my questions.

1. What is a great dvdplayer (Software) that you would recommend?

2. Are there any special files needed for decryption?

3. Are there any changes to fstab that could be valuable to enabling better or more stable playback?

I am able to mount the drive and read the drive info great. It works great for data, but dvd playing doesn't work.

Thanks in advance

Nobber · 05-20-2005, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mianve
It works great for data, but dvd playing doesn't work.

Tell us how you tried to get your DVDs to play, and what happened.

Tips from my own experience:

- mplayer works great as a DVD player; I'm told xine does too (and there's an official slackpack for it)
- you don't have to mount video DVDs
- don't try to play a DVD on an IDE drive with SCSI emulation enabled, because it probably won't work

marsques · 05-20-2005, 01:28 PM

as long you have the following libraries installed "libdvdread libdvdcss" you should be able to watch dvd's with any multimedia program...

urka58 · 05-20-2005, 04:54 PM

Include yourself as "normal user" into the group that owns the device used as default player .
xine default device is /dev/dvd, don't know for mplayer.
So make sure you have your /dev/dvd pointing to /dev/hdx (hdx is you drive).
The groups that own /dev/hdx are "cdrom" and "disk" on slacwkare, according to the kernel serie you loaded.
Hope this helps
ciao

AxXium · 05-20-2005, 05:01 PM

I don't understand. The cdrom link only points to the first of my optical drives, so in /dev I renamed cdrom to dvdrom and did

ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom

to give me a place to start setting up my CDR/RW

reddazz · 05-20-2005, 05:07 PM

Since you are using KDE, you may wish to use xine-lib with kaffeine as the frontend because it integreates well with the rest of the desktop. You can then also use amarok with xine as the backend.

securitybreach · 05-20-2005, 08:27 PM

I have Vector SOHO 5.0 and I have been having simliar problems myself. I enabled DMA but whenever I try to play a DVD through XIne or Gmplayer, I get the error message no disk in drive /dev/dvd.

Code:

The source cant be read. Maybe you dont have enough rights for this, or source doesnt contain date (e.g.: no disk in drive) (/dev/dvd)

There is n input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/'
Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesnt exist,

I installed all the dvd files from LinuxPackages.net including libdvd and navdvd. My fstab cd and DVD drivers shows:

Code:

# CDROM, CDWRITER, DVD 
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660  noauto,user,ro   0   0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdwriter iso9660  noauto,user,rw   0   0
/dev/hdc /mnt/dvd auto     noauto,user,ro   0 0

How can I change the settings for XIne or Gmplayer to look in /mnt/cdrom (this is my dvd drive) instead of /dev/dvd?

Also, my dmesg |grep "^hd" shows:

Code:

vector://home/secure
root:# dmesg | grep "^hd"
hda: WDC WD300BB-75DEA0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HL-DT-ST GCE-8481B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 52500633 sectors (26880 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=52083/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.

Thanx