Re: xine (testing) (was: [xine-user] sockets)

[Jim M. <mc...@li...>]

|> You're sure there isn't any stale rdvd "device"?
|>
|> what does "ls -l /dev/rdvd" tell you?

[jim:~] ls -l /dev/rdvd
        ls: /dev/rdvd: No such file or directory

This problem really does seem to have gone away. 

|> *shudder* you really shouldn't run xine as root

Well, only once to check it out ......

The problem I'm having definitely seems to be related to the way the
device file or the DVD player itself is set up. I downloaded two 
trial vob files (tiny little 10sec clips) from http://xine.cjb.net/
and they play just fine, with a command line like:

  xine /home/jim/FTP/evil.vob

Video and audio both of good quality. Full screen mode also works
well. So there's progress.

When I try to use a DVD disk in the player, however:

 (i) there'n no DVD button on the control-panel
(ii) sometimes (but only sometimes) I can get video to work by doing:
    
     xine dvd://vts_01_3.vob

     it's intermittent, though, and there's no audio, and kern.log
     fills with messages like: 

     Jul 16 23:44:33 toraigh kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
     Jul 16 23:44:33 toraigh last message repeated 2 times
     Jul 16 23:45:52 toraigh last message repeated 3 times

/dev/dvd is a symlink to /dev/sr0

   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root  root  8 Jul 17 00:55 dvd -> /dev/sr0

which is in turn a link to /dev/scd0:

   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root  root  4 Dec 26  2000 sr0 -> scd0

which is set up like this:

   brwxrwxrwt    1 root  cdrom 11,   0 Dec 26  2000 scd0
     
/dev/cdrom is also a link to scd0:

   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root  root        9 Feb 14  2000 cdrom -> /dev/scd0

strace -f xine 2>&1 |grep ENOENT yields this:

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open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
connect(3, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="                                                                                       /var/run/.nscd_socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/jim/.imrc", O_RDONLY)       = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/syncfb", O_RDWR|0x8000)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(0x401f3a6a, 0xbffff4bc)          = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp0", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp4", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp5", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp6", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp7", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp8", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp9", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp10", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp11", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp12", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp13", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp14", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)


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Thanks again for all your help. I really hope I'm not wasting people's
time because of some stupidity,

Jim