I remember a discussion at the last meet about playing DVDs and someone recommending Xine as a player. I have had a go at setting this up and it complains saying it won't play encrypted DVDs even with libdvdcss installed.
Has anyone else got this working? If so what did you have do do?
I found xine hokey, personally. I found OGLE to be far more reliable in it's support for DVD's, menus, etc. But then again it doesn't play mpegs or avi's. Maybe try an older version of libdvdcss- for some reason the newest one doesn't work for me, but the old one does! Also, your DVD might need to be set rw, I can't play encrypted DVD's without it being rw for the user in question. Hope that helps. Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze
Another important thing is to make sure UDMA is enabled if you have an IDE DVD drive. See hdparm. Xine will also play DivX given the right libraries, but I agree with Ricardo, it's not the most rock solid of apps. Mike On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 20:20, Ricardo Campos wrote:
I remember a discussion at the last meet about playing DVDs and someone recommending Xine as a player. I have had a go at setting this up and it complains saying it won't play encrypted DVDs even with libdvdcss installed.
Has anyone else got this working? If so what did you have do do?
I found xine hokey, personally. I found OGLE to be far more reliable in it's support for DVD's, menus, etc. But then again it doesn't play mpegs or avi's.
Maybe try an older version of libdvdcss- for some reason the newest one doesn't work for me, but the old one does! Also, your DVD might need to be set rw, I can't play encrypted DVD's without it being rw for the user in question.
Hope that helps.
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On Sunday 21 Jul 2002 8:55 pm, Mike Lincoln wrote:
Another important thing is to make sure UDMA is enabled if you have an IDE DVD drive. See hdparm.
Xine will also play DivX given the right libraries, but I agree with Ricardo, it's not the most rock solid of apps.
So in your opinion ogle is a better alternative? Or are there other players I should be looking at? -- Cheers, BJ
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:20:16 Ricardo Campos wrote:
I found xine hokey, personally. I found OGLE to be far more reliable in it's support for DVD's, menus, etc. But then again it doesn't play mpegs or avi's.
OK, I've installed OGLE that and now I get some new error messages. OGLE itself reports: MsgSendEvent: Invalid argument and at the same time in /var/log/syslog I get: Jul 21 23:35:52 pelvoux kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x54 Jul 21 23:35:52 pelvoux kernel: ATAPI device hdd: Jul 21 23:35:52 pelvoux kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Jul 21 23:35:52 pelvoux kernel: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit -- (asc=0x6f, ascq=0x04) Jul 21 23:35:52 pelvoux kernel: The failed "Report Key" packet command was: Jul 21 23:35:52 pelvoux kernel: "a4 00 00 37 a3 9d 00 00 00 0c c4 00 " Now so far no piece of software has offered me the choice of setting the region of the player. The player is an OEM one, i.e. supplied just as a player with no software etc. but the manual does make reference to there being a limited number of times the region can be reset, but makes no reference as to how. Any ideas plase? Steve.
On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:43:26PM +0100, Steve Fosdick wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:20:16 Ricardo Campos wrote:
Now so far no piece of software has offered me the choice of setting the region of the player. The player is an OEM one, i.e. supplied just as a player with no software etc. but the manual does make reference to there being a limited number of times the region can be reset, but makes no reference as to how.
Most DVD players can have the region changed 5 times with software, i think that this is a feature to allow you to move house and OEMs to reflash piles of hardware that are not selling in one particular region.
Any ideas plase?
Go here and look for a region free hack, i flashed my Sony DVD to be region free but I have no way of telling if it worked as I only own 2 DVDs from this region anyhow :) YMMV Adam -- "Step away from the Cathedral, This Bazaar is loaded" jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li
Hi all I've got a 140gb RAID0 across 4 disks of differing sizes. Its on RedHat 7.1 so thats kernel 2.4.2. Unfortunately this afternoon the raid has gone kaput :-/ As instructed I used 'persistant superblocks' which means that the kernel finds it on boot and tries to initialise the device without me having to run raidstart. On boot, or if I run raidstart myself, I get the following messages: Jul 21 23:41:17 giles kernel: autodetecting RAID arrays Jul 21 23:41:17 giles kernel: (read) hde1's sb offset: 45030080hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jul 21 23:41:17 giles kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=90060223, sector=90060160 Jul 21 23:41:17 giles kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:01 (hde), sector 90060160 Jul 21 23:41:18 giles kernel: md: disabled device hde1, could not read superblock. Jul 21 23:41:18 giles kernel: md: could not read hde1's sb, not importing! Jul 21 23:41:18 giles kernel: could not import hde1! ...I'm guessing from this that the drive (40gb IBM) has conveniently developed a bad block right where raidtools put its superblock. So I thought rebuilding the superblock might be a good plan: [root@giles /]# mkraid /dev/md0 handling MD device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/hde1, 45030163kB, raid superblock at 45030080kB mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues. syslog said: Jul 22 02:25:21 giles kernel: hde: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Jul 22 02:25:21 giles kernel: hde: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=90060223, sector=90060160 Jul 22 02:25:21 giles kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:01 (hde), sector 90060160 From reading around various HOWTOs, it seems the superblock only exists so that modern kernels can automount the RAIDs at boot time. They didn't exist in the old days. So I tried to frig it by editing /etc/raidtab, setting persistent-superblock to 0 and running 'raid0run'. This seems to work - I get lots of syslog messages saying its investigating the drives and I can mount the md0 device. But only some directories list, the values are all wrong, and I get kernel messages like: Jul 21 23:41:25 giles kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jul 21 23:41:25 giles kernel: 09:00: rw=0, want=326333420, limit=143733920 running e2fsck on it (in read-only mode) produces loads of inode errors, eventually exiting with Error while iterating over blocks in inode 2932821: Illegal indirect block found ...my /etc/raidtab is correct, drives are in the correct order and I have backups of /var/log/messages showing superblock addresses when it worked (earlier today), so I'm sure I must be able to mark the bad sectors then get it to put a new superblock somewhere... but I've no idea how! I know I might end up losing a few files on bad sectors - I can live with that - but losing a whole raid over 4 disks seems a bit too much. Can anyone help? If not, can anyone point me to some better online resources? I've tried the HOWTOs on linuxdoc.org and there's a RedHat howto but it doesn't go into this much detail... I'm unable to find any raidtools documentation beyond the man files... nor a mailing list...? Cheers Neil
Neil Sedger <n.sedger@bigfoot.com> wrote:
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
I think I've seen this using the old raidtools on a later-2.4 RAID. Do your versions match? raidtools version >0.90
I know I might end up losing a few files on bad sectors - I can live with that - but losing a whole raid over 4 disks seems a bit too much.
That's the danger with RAID0, isn't it?
If not, can anyone point me to some better online resources? I've tried the HOWTOs on linuxdoc.org and there's a RedHat howto but it doesn't go into this much detail... I'm unable to find any raidtools documentation beyond the man files... nor a mailing list...?
Debian had some in /usr/share/doc, but it's not that great. I think the lkml may be the mailing list for it. MJR
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:33:41AM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
Go here and look for a region free hack, i flashed my Sony DVD to be region free but I have no way of telling if it worked as I only own 2 DVDs from this region anyhow :) YMMV
DOH http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/ :) -- "Step away from the Cathedral, This Bazaar is loaded" jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li
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