SuSe 8.2 DVD no sound + more

[kitteneque]

:confused:
I installed Linus 2 weeks ago. I have searched the forum for numerous problems. (Installing Nvidia drivers. -THAT should give me alot of credit!! :-) Learning cl for rpm install when Yast wouldn't do ANYthing but sit there and then disappear. Learned on my own how to search for missing dependancies. And searched all over this forum for DVD issues. As well as other forums.) Ok...My point is..I HAVE LOOKED for problems and tried to learn as best as I can! :-) That said...I think I am searched out :-( The answer is prob in front of my face and I am just missing it in all the info I am jamming in my head. (Raised on DOS and MS - THOSE I can run! LOL)

I got all the rpms for Ogle (followed instructions on site). It "looks" like it installs. Nothing. Can't even FIND if it really installed altho I saw no errors in the cl stuff. Same with Mplayer. (It actually starts, but says it can't play my DVDs. I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere.) So I FINALLY found xine on my CDs. (Even tho the first 3 searches said it wasn't on there.) I got it installed. No video. Searched here. Found I needed libdvdcss. Got it. YEA!!! Video past the FBI warning!! No sound. :-( Also...can't figure out HOW in the world to nav past the splash screen menu. I've clicked every button on the xine gui and keyboard as well... :-) I know how to zoom w/ the KB LOL . I've read. It just doesn't DO what the doc says it should.

Any ideas HOW to get audio? (Music CD's play fine. All other sound works fine.) How in the HECK do I work xine??

---->>Feels totally ignorant!!<<---

I have:
AMD Athalon 800
256MB mem.
NVidia GeForce4 420 (Updated & 3D enabled all by myself :-)
CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio
IDE 16X CD/DVD
Acer CDRW

I haven't posted before coz' I didn't want to get flamed for not "searching". I've over searched. I've totally confused myself! Anything would be a help. Let me know what info to post?

Thanks!

[rdeschene2]

I'm using MPlayer (SuSE 8.1) and got it installed and running just fine, so I should be able to help you on that one. I found (by running mplayer from the command line, and watching for any error messages) that the RPMs on the SuSE DVD were missing some audio codecs I needed and is somewhat "cobbled" in its ability to play some newer disks.

Here's the steps I used:

- downloaded necessary files from
http://packman.links2linux.org/index.php4?action=128&vn=2

- included:
faad2-1.1-0.i686.rpm
lzo-1.08-0.pm.2.i686.rpm
lame-3.92-1.i686.rpm
w32codec-0.90-2.i386.rpm
xvid-0.9.1-0.i686.rpm
libdvdcss2-1.2.6-0.pm.0.i686.rpm
libdvdread-0.9.4-2.i686.rpm
libdvdnav-0.1.3-1.i686.rpm
divx4linux-20020418-1.i386.rpm
a52dec-0.7.4-3.pm.0.i686.rpm
MPlayer-0.90-1.i686.rpm

- installed the above using rpm -U. Had to use --nodeps with some files,
because I was in a circular loop of dependencies. This includes some audio &
video codecs, etc..

- check to make sure your /dev/dvd block device points to your DVD drive. If not, use the ln -s command (see man ln) to set it.

- I had to play around with the "drop frames" and "cache" and "autosync" options to get quite smooth playback on a Celeron 900MHz with a 64MB NVidia GeForce4 card and 512MB of RAM.
- also, check to make sure DMA mode is on for your DVD-ROM drive, assuming it's an IDE unit. This can be done via YaST2.

[kitteneque]

Thanks! I'll give it a try in the morning. :-) It's going on midnight here. (I see more research in the works ... ie. HOW do I run Mplayer from the command line?)

The rest I understood....

dvd block device....When I R-click and go to properties on the desktop icon that shows when it is mounted, and choose the "device" tab, it is selected for dev/dvd. Is that what you are refering to? (Still trying to make transition from the Win gui habit :-)

"- also, check to make sure DMA mode is on for your DVD-ROM drive, assuming it's an IDE unit. This can be done via YaST2."

Ummmm...I will see if I can figure out how to check this???

...I did get to Watch "Born in East LA" using subtitles. *grin* Just isn't the same!!

Thanks for your help. I'll see how I progress on this!

[kitteneque]

Ok. Have the DMA on. Found the pks I need. Installing them now.

Who needs sleep??:D

[rdeschene2]

(1) running mplayer from the command line: open a konsole and type: mplayer and hit ENTER.

- see man mplayer for some other options

(2) since you can play video DVD's (without sound) /dev/dvd is probably pointing to the right place already. You probably wont have to worry about it.

BTW if you had to, you would check this by going into Konqueror and browsing to /dev. Right-click on the dvd icon and select Properties, and it should list "Point to: /dev/hdb" or whatever...

OR (fewer steps, more info) you could type ls -al /dev/dvd in a console and it'll show you that info and more.

Hopefully this is all working for you.

Rick D.

[kitteneque]

Ok. Everything for the DVD was pointed correctly. I checked.

Now............

I downloaded and installed everything you said and checked in YaSt2 and everything is there...correct versions etc...


I click on MPlayer and it tells me there is an error with a font....ok...other than that it starts.

Then absolutely nothing. When I tell it to play it showes a black screen. A counter in the corner...and nada. No video. No drive action. Zip, nothing, all gone home and turned OUT the lights...

*grin* so much for cc viewing. LOL

oh...cl says "command not found".

So.... are we having fun yet??

[rdeschene2]

Hmm, something's still not right here. Let's just verify a few things first.

(1) note that I installed the SuSE 8.1 RPMs on a SuSE 8.1 system. I assume you installed the SuSE 8.2 RPMs on your system.

(2) Make sure you ran SuSEconfig when finished installing all these RPMs. If you're not sure, you can re-run it as root.

(3) if the command line indicates "command not found" there's something still amiss here.

(4) To play a DVD I use the command:

mplayer -dvd 1 -cache 8192 -dvd-device /dev/dvd

Try that and let us know what the output is.


I guess an alternative way of approaching this is to install as much of the MPlayer components as you can from the SuSE installation DVD, and just installing the RPMs which packman has and SuSE DVD doesn't.

I'm away on business for the next several days. Good luck in the interim.

You might want to try a search of alt.os.linux.suse newsgroup too:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.os.linux.suse

[kitteneque]

Thanks!

I'll give all this a try. I appreciate the help sofar.

1) Yes I did the SuSE 8.2 rpms

2) ummmm...That could be an issue since I didn't do that. Will have to research that one LOL

3) yep

4)Will try that

5) If all else fails will remove and try try again. :-)

[kitteneque]

katherine@linux:~> mplayer -dvd 1 -cache 8192 -dvd-device /dev/dvd
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.3 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/MPlayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/katherine/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/katherine/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/katherine/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/MPlayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/katherine/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/MPlayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/katherine/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Input config file /etc/MPlayer/input.conf parsed : 52 binds
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing DVD title 1
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 1 titles on this DVD.
There are 18 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
Cache fill: 15.33% (1286144 bytes) MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.97 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using 3DNowEx optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 2.0 (stereo) 48000 Hz 192.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 24000->192000 (192.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
================================================== ========================
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Disabling DPMS
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
================================================== ========================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
alsa-init: testing and bugreports are welcome.
alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 2 channels, Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: hw:0,0

[kitteneque]

Just an update in case others have this problem

I was missing the correct codec. Once I searched, hunted, and searched some more I found what I needed. I did the rpm -i, set the correct audio codec on the codec tab in properties and was off. YEA!! Sound.

Found I needed to take care in what I was using as far as OS & it's version, as well as ensure I was using compatible dependencies. (Those took awhile to figure out as I was like "what's a dependency?")

Anyway...There is a solution to every problem....you just have to look hard enough and ask the right questions to get restarted when you run out of options.

Now, off to see what I can do with wine....

Oh...Happy Birthday mdwatts!!!

[mdwatts]

Thanks Katherine and good job getting all that working. :)

[kitteneque]

Thanks! You're posts were a great influence!

**has the words "google it" engrained in brain!**

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by kitteneque
Thanks! You're posts were a great influence!

**has the words "google it" engrained in brain!**

:D

Always works for me. G4L and the JL forum search. :cool: :cool: :cool: