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
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
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Ricardo Campos wrote:
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 ;) )
You can log for the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or something similar depending on your distro)
or you can try this to get to a virtual terminal Ctrl+Alt+F1 (F1 - F6 will put you on virtual terminals Ctrl+Alt+F7 will get you back to your normal login) and login from there.
When you are on the virtual terminal you can then type
startx -- :1 2> xoutput
this will start a new instance of X on the terminal Ctrl+Alt+F8 you can now logout (if you can't logout you can kill the Xserver with Ctrl+Alt+backspace) of this X session and look at the file xoutput.
HTH (If I have not made this very clear, please ask again) Adam
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:50:12PM +0000, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Has anyone got Xine working on their system yet?
Yes, I've been using it since about 0.3.5.
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.
You don't actually need to load individual VOBs, just scan the DVD then hit play (afaicr).
Is it just refusing to play? or is it reading/decoding the DVD and just not displaying to the screen?
Any error messages?
Check that the XVideo extension is running properly in your X server (you need XFree86 4 for this). Type "xvinfo" and check you have something listed like 'Adaptor #0: "NV10 Video Overlay"'. If so you should run xine as "xine -V Xv". If you don't have Xv support you'll have to use the slower X Shared Memory approach, "xine -V XShm".
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.
I have a GeForce 2 MX with the Nvidia drivers.
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