i need you help slackers... actually i have posted my problem in the "software" forum but still my xine does not work... i have made all the suggestions of our fellow group members... and to the last point.. i even re-installed xine and gxine... but still its not working... the main problem is that i cant play a vcd.. an error mssg always prompts :

invalid mrl...

there is no plugin availble to handle vcd :/


guys cn u pls help me with this? ? thanks

Can Xine play anything at all from cd?

d cd does not work when i click d vcd button..even in gxine...it does not show anything..only the error messages

But can it play DVD's or audio cd's?

What I'm trying to ascertain is, whether or not there's a symlink between the device and the mount point?

You might try the following...

as root

ln -s /dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom

Where X is replaced with appropriate letter.

Before Xine will play, you must install libdvdcss and libdvdread, as well as a symlink.

Might also need to change the permissions of cdrom drive.

Do you have the vcd plugin ? From your previous post it's not in the list <xine --list-plugins>
In my system it's in /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.1/xineplug_inp_vcd.so
I think the slackware install should have done this by default, but maybe it didn't for some reason ?
Also, about that test available at http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#VCDSUPPORT . The only way to make that play on my system < xine vcd:///$HOME/test_svcd_pal.cue@E0 > . Maybe your system is the same ?

EDIT/ I think your version of xine-lib will be newer than 1.0.1 and won't have xineplug_inp_vcd.so.
I guess it deals with vcd's in some different way. It seems 1.0.1 has some security issues.

guys here is the content of my xine--list-plugins ::

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bash-3.00$ xine --list-plugins
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.

Available xine's plugins:
-Audio output:
alsa, oss, arts, esd, none, file.

-Video output:
dxr3, aadxr3, xv, opengl, xshm, caca, aa, none, sdl, vidix, vidixfb, fb.

-Demuxer:
anx, mpeg-ts, quicktime, wve, idcin, ipmovie, vqa, wc3movie, roq, str,
film, smjpeg, fourxm, vmd, matroska, asf, avi, fli, flashvideo, aud, aiff,
flac, nsf, realaudio, snd, voc, vox, iff, mpeg_pes, mng, ogg, nsv, pva,
real, yuv4mpeg2, slave, image, mpeg_block, mpeg, ac3, dts, cdda, wav,
rawdv, elem, sputext, aac, mp3, mpc, shn, flac, yuv_frames.

-Input:
DVB, DVD, rtsp, stdin, mms, tcp, FILE, pnm, v4l_radio, v4l_tv, pvr, rtp,
smb, VCDO, http, CD.

-Subpicture:
dxr3-spudec, spudec, spucmml, spucc, spudvb, sputext.

-Post processing:
goom, upmix, upmix_mono, stretch, switch, oscope, fftscope, fftgraph,
mosaico, expand, invert, eq, denoise3d, boxblur, eq2, unsharp, pp, tvtime.

-Audio decoder:
gsm610, mad, ffmpegaudio, a/52, realadec, mpc, nsf, dvaudio, flacdec,
vorbis, win32a, dts, faad, pcm, qta.

-Video decoder:
dxr3-mpeg2, real, mpeg2, image, ffmpegvideo, win32v, bitplane, rgb, yuv,
qtv, ffmpeg-wmv8.
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i realy appreciate your replies.. thanks

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You might try the following...

as root

ln -s /dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom

Where X is replaced with appropriate letter.
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hmmm see my results...

root@darkstar:~# ln -s /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
ln: `/mnt/cdrom/hdd': File exists

Did you change the permissions of /mnt/cdrom ?

Try chmod-ing it to 777.

here is the content of my fstab...

swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc5 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc7 /tmp reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc8 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc9 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc10 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/winbk vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,ro 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
~
~

guys hre is the message when i tried to open gxine in d command line after inserting the vcd. ..

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bash-3.00$ gxine
wine/module: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x40bade36 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
wine/module: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x40bade36 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter

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hmmm wats wrong? ? help please

Do this again but thsi time make sure you first do a and make sure you leave the space between hdd and /mnt

I hope to not disturb this thread but... why do you want the mount point to be a symlink to the device node? That's wrong.
A posible needed symlink would be /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/hdd

to gbonvehi... do u have a suggestion why i cnt play vcd on gxine and xine based on my posts above? ? thanks. m really having a hard time pls check my latest post...

Well, I've never watched a VCD, but afaik they used MPEG compression. Try moving the codecs to another directory and test the VCD without them.