Playing DVDs using totem?

[Murali Parth]

On 5/8/05, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Toralf Lund <toralf at procaptura.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Others in list have reported sucess with Totem.
> > You
> > >just need certain packages and it will work.  If I
> > >remember correctly something like gstreamer???? and
> > >other plugins will make it work.
> > >
> > >
> > What I was trying to say, was that I already tried
> > this, and it still
> > won't play my DVDs..
> 
> I'm sorry that it won't work for you.  This had been
> an in issue for me and now thank god, it has gone
> away.  Sometimes its the hardware that give problems.
> 
> 
> >
> > >[ ... ]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Sorry to add to tbe discussion, but I have a few
> > >remarks to add, I have both xine, and MPlayer on my
> > >pcs and I don't have any problems.  Most Dvd's play
> > >without a hiccup.
> > >
> > >
> > How do you define "most"?
> 
> By "most" I mean encrypted dvd's and standard dvd's.
> To make it work for "most" if not all, we use
> libdvdcss2.  And that takes care of that problem.
> >
> > >There are the frontends for xine
> > >http://xinehq.de/index.php/download
> > >I can't complain about the frontend for xine the
> > >xine-ui might not be the best but it works!
> > >
> > >To install xine I obtain the rpms from
> > >http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/.
> > >I follow almost all the instructions there.  you
> > can
> > >get RealPlayer and install the w32codecs to play
> > >windows media/quicktime and other formats.
> > >
> > >As for MPlayer, you can install kplayer which is a
> > >nice frontend for MPlayer.
> > >
> > >I have no complains as both players work for me and
> > as
> > >far as ogle is concerned, it never worked for me.
> > I
> > >tried it in Mandrake, and Fedora Core 2 and 3 and
> > it
> > >did not work.  They say it is real good, but it
> > never
> > >worked for me.  So I can't rate it.
> > >
> > >
> > Really? My experience has been exactly the opposite.
> > Ogle has generally
> > worked, but I've had all sorts of problems with the
> > others - especiall
> > mplayer. I've mainly tested it on network streams
> > etc., though, and for
> > those it will generally crash, hang or just give me
> > a black screen at
> > some point during the playback. As for DVDs, I think
> > that when I tried a
> > while back, I had a hard time finding out how
> > exactly to tell mplayer it
> > what to play - DVD menu support was non-existant.
> Yes, MPlayer does not have DVD menu support, to get
> that though we can still use MPlayer codecs for
> xine-ui, kaffeine, or probably totem itself.  I have
> kplayer installed as a frontend to MPlayer and type
> dvd://1 and watch the movie, therefore avoiding the
> previous and other stuff.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio
> 
> > Right now, it won't
> > display anything except the initial blue screen if I
> > select "Open DVD".
> > It then crashes as I right-click on the video
> > window. That's with the
> > Gtk frontend, and using mplayerhq's own packages.
> >
> > I did get some problems with Ogle right now, though,
> > after upgrading all
> > the libdvd stuff etc. in an attempt to get the other
> > players to work.
> > I'm investing the issue...

Hello
I inserted my DVD and started xine and clicked on DVD .It started the
video and sound  initially and after the first scene everything
vanished.That's my experience recently.
I downloaded ogle and all dependent libraries including 'libxml2'
which is an essential one , but the installation ogle-gui says it
cannot find a valid libxml2 . Any clues please ?
Murali