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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: heljy on 11 October 2002, 08:20

Title: Getting Xine to watch DVD
Post by: heljy on 11 October 2002, 08:20

Ok, I just installed a DVDROM today and would like to try to watch DVD on Mandrake.

Firstly, my DVDROM is /dev/hdc so I created a symbolic link /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdc I also set /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

After that i downloaded xine-lib, xine-ui, set it up and installed them. Then I downloaded the DVDNAV plugin and the Captain CSS plugin and installed both (I tried DVDNAV first and it didnt work).

Well, basically I started xine and select DVD and  this came up at the panel "dvd://VIDEO_TS.VOB" but once I clicked on play, the following message came up:

- xine engine error -

There is no input plugin available to handle
'dvd://VIDEO_TS.VOB'.
Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream scource doesn't exits.

Does that mean that the DVDNAV and the Captain CSS plugins that I installed didnt work?

Any advise?

EDIT: BTW, I tried to watch both VCD and divx files and both worked flawlessly, so I am pretty sure that xine got installed properly.

[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: heljy ]

Title: Getting Xine to watch DVD
Post by: mobrien_12 on 12 October 2002, 10:09

Try Ogle.  I got it working on my box and can play CSS encrypted DVD's.

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/index.shtml (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/index.shtml)

Title: Getting Xine to watch DVD
Post by: RudeCat7 on 13 October 2002, 02:07

Who is viewing encrypted DVDs, and which release(app) are you using on RH 8.0?  :confused:

Title: Getting Xine to watch DVD
Post by: vdub12 on 13 October 2002, 02:09

Don't select DVD select the NAV button and it will work. I had that problem for a long time to.

Title: Getting Xine to watch DVD
Post by: heljy on 13 October 2002, 06:23

I tried Ogle and must say that I am pretty impressed. It ran well and I can finally watch DVD on my linux box  :D

One thing to point out though, maybe its a known bug(read on the site about working on ESD, some audio stuff), but after playing one DVD, I cant get it to work anymore. It starts up fine for 4 sec and automatically closes itself. I guess it must have something to do with the audio portion of the system.

After that, I cant get XMMS and Xine to work too, I must reboot the OS before it works again. Anyone has the same problem?

Title: Getting Xine to watch DVD
Post by: RudeCat7 on 13 October 2002, 21:51

I could not for the life of me get xine installed using SRC files.  :(   The last time I had to use ogle, which is really good! But this time I really screwed up the install. Oh well, I seem to be having better luck with Mplayer.

Does anybody have a better explation for getting the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH configured? For Xine?

The library was installed in:
/usr/local/lib

I did a: "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

Then as root I did a: "/sbin/ldconfig" cuz "ldconfig" by itself does nothing.

Then in the /etc/ld.so.conf I added the library path: "/usr/local/lib"

So, xine-ui-0.9.13 still refuses to configure, and says that I need to install the xine libraries first. Which I did. I just don't know how to get the library path configured I guess.

I have read the INSTALL doc and have browsed the web, so if you guys have any ideas to help me understand I would appreciate it.

Please bear with me, I'm a noob, remember?

  :D

Title: Getting Xine to watch DVD
Post by: heljy on 13 October 2002, 10:14

Ok, I followed the instructions provided in xine-ui/doc/FAQ_en

I started with xine-lib, I think it required zlib, so I got that installed too.

tar -xvzf xine-lib
cd xine-lib
./configure
make install

Well, I am sure you have done that too.

Then I entered:

%export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
%export LD_LIBRARY="/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PAHT"

entered /usr/local/lib into the /etc/ld.so.conf file

then I ran ldconfig

which is again what I supposed you have done.

then I just went ahead and install xine-ui:

tar -xvzf xine-ui
cd xine-ui
./configure
make install

and it worked for me. Note that I repeated the installation a number of times as I couldnt get it to work too, then suddenly, everything just falls into place.

My advise would be read the FAQ_en and follow everything thats in there. Thats what I did and it worked for me.


Good luck

[ October 13, 2002: Message edited by: heljy ]

Title: Getting Xine to watch DVD
Post by: heljy on 13 October 2002, 10:39

BTW, vdub12, where is the NAV button that you are talking about?

Is it the MRL Browser? I am using the xinetic skin.

Title: Getting Xine to watch DVD
Post by: RudeCat7 on 13 October 2002, 21:07

Thanks for the info. Now I need to install AALIB to configure the xine UI.