Re: [xine-user] Help - play DVD's

[Rich W. <rj...@he...>]

On Thursday 22 Nov 2001 10:07 pm, Patrick Bloomfield wrote:
> >Are you sure that you do have permissions to /dev/scd1p? As far as I k=
now,
> >links' permissions are meaningless, so check your permissions.. Have y=
ou
> >tried to play dvds as root? if you get some errors from X that you hav=
e no
> >rights to open X windows as a root, you should try 'xhost +' as a norm=
al
> >user, as owner of X server. Althought this might be a security hole.
> >
> >Joonas Koivunen
> >
> >On Thursday 22 November 2001 00:51, you wrote:
> >> input_dvd: unable to open dvd drive (/dev/dvd): Permission denied
> >> input_dvd: cannot open dvd drive >/dev/dvd<
>
> Thanks this has enabled xine to recognise the dvd.  Unfortunately the v=
ideo
> image is played in blocks and there appears to be no sound.  I have
> installed all the additional modules I could find and it will play both
> British and region 1 DVD's as described above.  Looking though some of =
the
> web sites I found reference to dxr3 and some mention that xine only pla=
yed
> through TV output, but this was fairly old information (March 2001).
>
> I've install all of the following:
>
> libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz
> xine-ui-0.9.4.tar.gz
> libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
> xine_css_dvd_0.3.9.tgz
> xine-dvdnav-0.9.3.beta.tar.gz
> xine_d4d_plugin-0.2.7.tar.gz
> xine-lib-0.9.4.tar.gz

How are you specifying that xine should play the DVD? Just using dvd://fo=
o=20
wont work as xine cannot play encrypted DVDs. With the plugins you have, =
you=20
should be able to do e.g.=20

 $ xine -pq dvdnav://

or click the 'NAV' button in the GUI and press play.

Read the READMEs in the modules you have downloaded for more info.

Rich

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