Xine wont play dvd's

Forum: Apps
Topic: Xine wont play dvd's
started by: searayman

Posted by searayman on April 16 2006,00:41

i downloaded xine an dmy dvd's wont play, any suggestions?

Posted by searayman on April 16 2006,23:52

the erroe i get is: Error Reading Nav Packet

Posted by piccolo on April 17 2006,10:02

If it says “Error reading NAV packet”, most likely this means the DVD is encrypted and so it cannot be played. Try another disc.

Posted by mikshaw on April 17 2006,13:21

I don't know what nav packet is, but if it is as piccolo says you would need to install libdvdcss (and maybe libdvdread?) in order to read encrypted DVDs.

Posted by green on April 17 2006,14:14

It may be a codec issue. Try getting the codecpak.dsl extension in the repository under System.

Posted by searayman on April 17 2006,22:28

ok i downloaded the codepak.dsl and it worked the dvd now plays, but its realy skipy and drops to many frames, is there anyway i can speed up my system so i can watch dvd's cleanly? i only had xine open when playogn the dvd, will uninstalling progrmas i dont use speed it up enough to get dvd's to run cleanly? if not do u got any other ideas?

Posted by mikshaw on April 18 2006,03:19

Uninstalling applications will help only if those apps are installed into ram, such as mydsl apps added to a live CD or frugal.

Try turning on dma for your DVD drive (sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/XXX or use the "dma" boot parameter)

Posted by green on April 18 2006,03:36

Your system specs may be something to consider. What is it's speed, memory, etc?

Posted by searayman on April 18 2006,22:47

i am not exactly sur eof my system specs, i have an IBM thinkpad 600e and i am pretty sure it hasnt been upgraded.

Posted by green on April 19 2006,00:36

I used to have a 600E and it was 800Mhz, 256Mb RAM.

If you are running a current version of DSL, you can:

Right click on desktop to get the menu, go to System -> System Stats

A window will pop up and tell you all kinds of neat stuff, including (but not limited to): CPU speed and type, memory, version of DSL, etc.

That said, my 600E did not have a DVD drive, so I can not say how well it did playing DVD's. Sorry.

Posted by searayman on April 23 2006,20:13

i dont get the dma thing how can i turn that o nand what will it do?