Xine problems

[Tyr-7BE]

I just downloaded Xine 0.4.3...the screenies look nice, but that's about all I'm going from. I downloaded it primarily to play encrypted DVDs. I apt-got installed xine, and then manually installed the captain_CSS plugin. I started Xine and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to play DVDs. I looked around on their webpage, and discovered that I'm missing a button. Xine gives me an option of scanning for VCDs, but the DVD button isn't there! Can anyone tell me what's going on here? If not, can you recommend a better DVD player? (not LiViD...http://www.linuxvideo.org...it craps out for me on the install :().

[debiandude]

You need to install this deb: http://www.samfundet.no/~tfheen/debian/dists/woody/css/binary-i386/xine-dvd-css_0.1.2-1_i386.deb

It can't be included into debian becuase of the possible leagal implicatoins with decss and stuff... download, dpkg -i flie* and enjoy your dvds :-)

[Tyr-7BE]

Thanks a lot :) I can now see a DVD tab. I can start to play the DVD, but I get issues with the image buffer (it doesn't exist) and the sound (it doesn't exist). I'll hunt around for some answers and come back if I'm stumped. THanks :)

[debiandude]

Are you getting Xv errors? Becuase I found that debian debs didn't have Xv compiled in or something for my Voodoo3. I simply went to dri.sourceforge.net and downloaded the latest 0.7 drivers. Worked like a charm after that. Maybe if you post the actuall error I would be able to help

[portablevcb]

I could not get LiVid to compile either. Then went back and had to edit the config scripts to see where all the proper files were. Once I got it compiled it works great!

To accomplish, look at the compiler errors and go to the script/file referred to and edit it. Yes, you can crash things doing this, but, how else do we learn? :D

[Tyr-7BE]

Debiandude...no Xv errors as of yet. When I tried to compile LiViD, mpeg2dec (is that it?) and the other one went fine, but as soon as I tried to compile oms and omi, ./configure told me (pulling this one out from memory) something like "/autotools/lgconfig not found". I went to autotools and sure enough it wasn't there. If anyone knows how to get it there it'd be great. Off to try to figure out Xine for now, which has had the most (if limited) success.

[Tyr-7BE]

Oh yeah...there it is...reading the FAQ at xine.sourceforge.net, it says that the "no video port" error is caused by lack of Xv support. I DO get the "no video port" error, but Xine doesn't fail. Maybe something to do with the lack of imagebuffer? Still trying to get a clue about the lack of sound. I'll give that link a shot. Thanks :)

[Tyr-7BE]

Pure silliness...for no reason whatsoever, the audio works. I opened xine, tried it, no audio. I opened "xine -s", tried it, audio. Opened xine without the -s again, audio again. Go figure. One down, one (imagebuffer) to go :)

[Tyr-7BE]

debiandude...do you know of any other drivers that might work? I have an ATI Xpert 98, and I'm not so sure that it's supported. I'm also having a hell of a lot of trouble compiling dri. All is not lost yet but it's turning into more of a headache than it's worth. It's almost better to reboot to watch a DVD. The playback is decent, but there are tonnes of AV sync problems, and frames are being dropped left and right. gkrellm says that my processor runs at 100% when I'm playing a DVD, so I'm thinking something is wrong. I have an 800 MHz Athlon, and that should be fine for playing DVDs. My theory is that everything goes to the processor and RAM because I don't have video drivers that Xine likes. Anyone know of anything else that'll give me Xv?

[Tyr-7BE]

debiandude, where did you get dri 0.7? I looked for a tarball but I couldn't find any. I got 0.65 from CVS, but the damn thing won't work with my kernel :( Do you know of any other things that'll give me Xv (something that doesn't require 200 megs?)?

[r0nster]

I have a question regarding xine. How does one know if it is using hardware acceleration? On my sys, I think it is uing HWaccel but I'm not positive. I'm running a Geforce2 GTSpro card and it uses roughly 30 to 40% CPU utilization. My cpu is a 1 GHz Athlon. I'm Also running XFree86 4.0.3 with the latest Nvidia drivers.
I notice no dropped frames and the picture looks perfect. The only problems I get is occasionally crackling sound (Jurassic Park).
Other than that, it runs well.

[Tyr-7BE]

start it up in an xterm and take a look at the messages that go by. If it tells you that there's no display port found, then it's not using hardware acceleration and everything is being filtered out through the vanilla xserver. X is fine and dandy for surfing the net and using as a desktop, but it just doesn't cut it when you try to cram a dvd through it. However, XFree86 4.1.0 will include DRI. Since the current CVS doesn't like the 2.4.5 kernel (they've been too busy synching with the XF86 tree to update their standard source), I'm stuck waiting until 4.1.0 is released on debian unstable. Shouldn't be TOO much longer. DVDs are the only reason I have to reboot into windows right now so as soon as I have that solved I'll be styling :)