DVD Playback on Linux

[billy_gates]

Is there a software DVD Decoder for Linux?

[lu666s]

http://www.linuxtv.org/developer/software.xml

Billy, do yourself a favor and fire up, on occassion, google or somethin.

Otherwise I have to assume extreme laziness. Neither of the two spell any good.

[billy_gates]

I will do so next time, thank you

P.S. You spelled extreme and laziness correct

[psyjax]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!! Nice comeback.... lol...

 

[Leodak]

you also might wanna check out www.freshmeat.net lots of linux programs and stuff... and xine is the dvd player i use, works pretty good

[billy_gates]

OK, I went to the official XINE website and downloaded the latest tarball as of February 18th. I DLed the lib and the ui

The ./configure, make, and make install worked fine on the lib.

And on the UI ./configure worked, but when I typed make is said "No targets specified, no make files found. stop"

Please Help, How do I get it to "Make"?

[badkarma]

are you sure configure didn't report any errors? I remember when I installed xine that I had to set the XINE_CONFIG environment variable.

[billy_gates]

I don't know, what does an error look like?

[badkarma]

something like this : (actual xine failure when installing on my pc)

checking for off_t... (cached) yes
checking for size_t... (cached) yes
checking for ptrdiff_t... yes
checking for xine-config... no
checking for XINE-LIB version >= 0.9.4... no
*** The xine-config script installed by XINE could not be found
*** If XINE was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the XINE_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to xine-config.
configure: error: *** You should install xine-lib first ***

should this be the same error that you have just type export XINE_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/xine-config
and then ./configure again

[billy_gates]

I did get thet exact error, so I did the export thing you mentioned and then typed ./configure again. it worked. but then when I type make, it got to nearly the end and gave me some errors. Then I typed make install (hoping the errors wouldn't matter) and it did the whole thing, got some errors. Then I typed xine (again hoping the errors didn't matter) and it said bash: command not found. So it is not installed, help me make again please?

[badkarma]

"some error" isn't exactly very descriptive now is it? how about pasting the error in a post so we can actually tell what's going on instead of doing guesswork?