Multimedia :: xine problems?

hi

i did an hdinstall, and then i used apt-get to get the testing version of xine-ui, everything downloaded nicely. when i put in a movie dvd and tell xine to play it, it always craps out. basically a bunch of errors, some mention of it not wanted to play encrypted dvd's, and then an assertion failure on a read call (ive included the errors at the end of the message). note this is not an illegally hacked dvd, this is an original genuine dvd.

also i found that debian doesnt support mplayer, which used to play movies on my previous system fine.

how do you guys watch movies?

thanks
gong

libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc2 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdnav: DVD Title: CONTEMPT
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 3DC845B0
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/damnsmall/.dvdnav/CONTEMPT.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00c00000. Regions: 1 2 3 4 5 6
*** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:648
for pgc->zero_1 = 0x0004
*** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:648
for pgc->zero_1 = 0x0001

*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:1522 ***
*** for info_length % sizeof(uint32_t) == 0 ***

libdvdnav: ifoRead_VOBU_ADMAP vtsi failed - CRASHING
xine: vm.c:220: ifoOpenNewVTSI: Assertion `0' failed.
Aborted

Gong,

Due to licencing issues in the United States, Xine does not include the necsisary librarys to properly decode encrypted DVD's, however you can get around this by downloading, and compiling on your system a package called libdvdcss, from I believe, Denmark. Just do a Google search for it. I doubt that you will find it in the Debian Repository, but you could try. I hope this is clear as mud now.

Joel

hi joel

thanks for the advice! i downloaded mplayer from marillat.free.fr which also has the dvdcss2 library, and now its playing movies under xine, which is great. however they're awfully choppy, im using Xvesa and i noticed that the drive is under ide-scsi, and Xv is not included in dsl; these are all mentioned in the xine faq, so i'll address them. any other suggestions would be appreciated, and thanks for the info

-gong

You may want to look at the Ogle player, this has worked for both encrypted & non-encrypted discs.

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/

Regards,
LG

original here.