-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 January 2002 4:24 pm, Kent West wrote: > Richard Otte wrote: > > I recently acquired a DVD player from another Linux machine, and am > > considering installing it in my Linux machine. I have an IDE CD-RW in > > the machine, and can hook the Dvd up to the end of the ribbon connected > > to the CDRW. But I wonder what sort of software modifications I would > > have to make to use the Dvd player. I assume it wouldn't be as simple > > as simply making an entry into /etc/fstab. Would I have to make a new > > Kernal? Anyway, I've never done anything like this, and if anyone has > > any suggestions I'd like to hear them. I'm trying to decide if it is > > worth the trouble to hook up. Thanks, > > > > Ric > > I was in your shoes a few weeks ago; ... ...[snip] > > The players I've tried are ogle, vlc, and xine. >
I have an ide dvd drive - its just connected on the ribbon cable along with a hard disk. Remember to set the jumper for master/slave as appropriate (opposite to the other drive). As for software, I installed the debian libcss and libdvdread2 packages (and the -dev equivents) and then got the source of mplayer and compiled and installed that. As I have a kernel built with devfs there was some mucking about with the debian devfsd package to get it to symlink /dev/dvd to the right place and to ensure the permissions allowed writing to the dvd drive (necessary for libcss to do its stuff). I still had libdvdread2 failing when I put in a dvd into the drive, and although I didn't mount the dvd, /etc/fstab was telling it to mount /dev/dvd as an iso9660 filesystem. This was wrong. I recompiled the kernel to build the udf filesystem as a module (iso9660 is also built as a module) and changed /etc/fstab to specify auto (so if I put in a standard data cd it reads that correctly as iso9660 - a dvd as a udf) as the filesystem type. I can now play dvd's using mplayer -dvd 1 and it works pretty well (I have noticed a very slight out of sync between audio and video - its not obvious but it is there) on my 900MHz Athlon (NVIDIA Geforce2 graphics card). A minor irritation is that it reports /dev/rtc has not having the right access permissions and it says it resorts to usleep for timing. This seems to work OK. If I log in as root this goes away - reading the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/rtc.txt file explains that the kernel will fail a non root user setting the rtc to interrupt faster than 64Hz (I think mplayer is trying to set it to 1024Hz). - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Njt01mf3M5ZDr2kRAsA3AJ97otztPfR/kp1cG11L7xRj2Xs1lACfcw+y JkuqI+MXLT1qIDzIouS2/kI= =/32b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
