Playing DVDs using totem?

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Murali Parth <muralinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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Get libxml2 from 

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1619363/com/libxml2-devel-2.6.16-5_17.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm.html

hope this resolves that issue.

Regards,

Antonio



		
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