What distro/versions are you using? I compiled Xine 0.9.1 with no trouble on Slackware 8 (X 4.1.0, kernel 2.4.10, with a GeForce DDR).
Are you actually opening the files individually using Xine? You should just click on the DVD (or whichever decss'ing plugin you have) button along the bottom of the control box and it will find the whole movie.
The DVD doesn't actually have to be mounted to play the movie, but it doesn't seem to make any difference, you just have to point xine at the device for the drive, it defaults (as you have discovered) to /dev/dvd.
If you still have no luck, run it from a terminal window and look at the messages it gives out when you try and play a movie.
Once you get it working Xine is excellent, it produces smoother video than PowerDVD on W2K on my PC (Athlon 800).
Andrew
Ricardo Campos wrote:
Has anyone got Xine working on their system yet? It's being a bit of a pig. I have installed pretty much all the plugins (incl. the decss one and another for 'encrypted' DVDs)except one, which was not meant to be essential - dx3r I think it was called.
I have ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd mount /mnt/cdrom /mnt/dvd
Xine recognises that there is a DVD drive there, it recognises the .VBO files, but I get no output.
One thing I think may be a problem is that I haven't set MTRR. (ref. Linux DVD howto). This requires my starting X and outputting to file so I can read a few configs of my videocard- e.g. it's base memory address. Unfortunately I can't do this from within Gnome or KDE.
My system boots straight into an X environment (KDE). How can I stop X and go to the command line and startx 2> xoutput (xoutput being a fairly good name for the output of x ;) )
Is it just stopx ?
Anyone had any success? Anything else you can think for me to consider? I have a Geforce 2 MX card, with the appropriate drivers and kernel from nvidia.
Ricardo