Multimedia :: Xine Playback Problem



jaygeedsl -

You didn't mention if you installed libdvdcss.   Libdvdcss is the only external library needed to play dvds in Xine, and it is needed for most dvds.  External libdvdread and libdvdnav libraries are no longer needed, though.  

I duplicated your setup and had no problem playing dvds on my machine.      

Enabling dma is not mandatory but helpful especially if you have older, slower dvd drives like I do.  You only need to enable dma for your dvd drive and not your hard drives to improve playback.

Have you tried other dvds besides the one you mentioned?  Mine work and I am puzzled as to why yours doesn't.  Also, the version of DSL you are running and in what mode (live, frugal, etc) may help in troubleshooting.
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Libdvdcss is the only external library needed to play dvds in Xine

In view of that info I've just downloaded libdvdcss2_1.2.9-1_i386deb. Unfortunately this puts me firmly into handholding mode having hitherto only yummed rpms in F8.
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You only need to enable dma for your dvd drive and not your hard drives to improve playback.

Understood.
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Have you tried other dvds besides the one you mentioned?

No. Was trying to keep the number of variables to a minimum.
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Also, the version of DSL you are running and in what mode (live, frugal, etc) may help in troubleshooting

Running DSL-4.2.4 on a Kingmax 4GB USB flash drive plugged into a Dell Dimension 2.4GHz desktop with 1GB RAM, two HDDs and a TestCorp DVD-R/CD-RW optical drive.
jaygee -
 I appreciate your interest in this extension, and I am happy to answer questions you may have about it.  We were all new to DSL once, and learning takes time.  Though the function of Xine.uci has nothing that is DSL-specific, things such as codecs and libdvdcss are not installed automatically when you install Xine as they are in other distros.
 Anyway, if libdvdcss is not installed, there are all kinds of wierd errors that will come up.  With it installed, no errors.  Since you have not installed it yet, I bet that is the culprit.  Let me know if libdvdcss does not fix the situation.
jaygee: use deb2dsl on it to create a .dsl extension out of it..
Jason W

I'll keep you posted. Thanks for your help.

curaga

Thanks for the hint.

I've attempted to follow the procedure at http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Creating_a_dsl_Extension
but have - again - fallen at the first. Although file libdvdcss2_1.2.9-1_i386deb is in /home/dsl entering "deb2dsl" in a terminal gets "command not found".

My learning curve reservations are proving to be true and I don't  really want to take up board time/space with basic DSL procedures which I should have hoisted in by now. My problem with the command line lies in the short term memory deficiency area. If something can't simply be GUI'd I have to give it a miss else it becomes counter productive in resource terms. I'll put Xine on the back burner pro tem.
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