RE: [xine-user] Need help setting up to play DVD's

[Rohan, G. <jr...@ma...>]

Hi I've been having problems playing DVD's and even just regular CD's with
kaffeine/xine while using my suse 9.0 personal OS.  I've narrowed down a few
things now with a lot of trial and error but I still haven't managed to fix
the problem. It will play MPG movies, and ripped MP3's but not DVD's or
Cd's.  All the DVD's are region 1, and I recently found that xine is set up
for region 1 also.  So I am not sure what the problem is with DVD's.  It
will give me an unknown error in the bottom left corner of Kaffeine and when
I click on Dvd from the command bar up top it says that my version of xine
has limited codecs and isn't able to play DVD's.  It tells me to go to a web
site for more information but I have limited access to the internet right
now and only email is available to me.  There are 2 different types of
codecs that my xine uses.  The ones for real player, and win32 or something
to that effect.  DVD's, CD's and every piece of media I've tried in Real
player doesn't seem to work either. I have my suse installed on a sony viao
laptop so I was thinking maybe that was where my issues start.  I really am
lost on this. I'm a green stick when it comes to Linux operation and this is
a big stone wall right in my path. Any help would be appreciated.  If it
will take a download of some sort, it would also be very appreciated if it
was emailed since I have no internet access.  (I'm behind a proxy)  I do
have a 1g jump drive though so anything you send (with the right
instructions) I should be able to put to good use.  

Thanks,
r/
Jorell Rohan
-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Salt [mailto:li...@yo...]
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:38 PM
To: xin...@li...
Cc: jr...@ma...
Subject: Re: [xine-user] Need help setting up to play DVD's


I demand that Rohan, GSM3 may or may not have written...

[snip; software, graphics hardware, DVD drive *should* be OK]
> When I try to play a dvd through kaffeine I either get an "unknown error"
> or it tells me that I don't have the correct codecs.

> Any help would be appreciated...

You've missed out a few *very* important pieces of information. What are you
trying to play (title, region), and to what region (if any) is the drive
set?

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