Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-12 Thread steef
Marko Randjelovic wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:05:26PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: // # /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/./install-css.sh Datum point - this is probably true only for Sarge / Etch. Not in Sid - which currently suggests that you fe

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-12 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:05:26PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: // # /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/./install-css.sh Datum point - this is probably true only for Sarge / Etch. Not in Sid - which currently suggests that you fetch the package for libd

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:05:26PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > > >// > > > ># /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/./install-css.sh > > Datum point - this is probably true only for Sarge / Etch. Not in Sid - which currently suggests that you fetch the package for libdvdcss2 from debian-unoffici

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-11 Thread Piers Kittel
b, // # /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/./install-css.sh luck. b. Fantastic! That fixed my problem! Thanks very much for your help, much appreciated! :) Regards - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-11 Thread p
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 01:15:04PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: __deletia__ > mplayer is now able to play back the DVD as the user "piers" but Xine > still won't play the DVD back with the output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xine > This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3. > (c) 2000-200

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-11 Thread Piers Kittel
Seeker, If /dev/hdb is your DVD drive then it should get the ownership of root:cdrom, not root:disk. This an identification/enumeration problem and the proper fix would be to figure out a udev rule or whatever that would identify it and give it the correct ownership. Failing that the next bes

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-11 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:33:22 + Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seeker, > > Thank you very much for your reply. > > > From: Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -l hdb > >> brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-09 Thread Piers Kittel
Seeker, Thank you very much for your reply. From: Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -l hdb brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 2005-02-26 06:38 hdb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ I assume this should be cdrom not disk correct? That is wha

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-07 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:32:31 + Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -l hdb > brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 2005-02-26 06:38 hdb > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ > > I assume this should be cdrom not disk correct? That is what the Audio CD, DVD, VCD players want, the

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-06 Thread Piers Kittel
Andrew, Thanks very much for replying to my email. I appreciate it. I think what really matters is the permissions on /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc depending on how you're set up. check those. they should be root:cdrom. Also, what mechanism are you using for mounting these disks? You may have to monk

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:17:43PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm sure there is a simple solution to this problem but I'm not quite > sure how to fix it. Bascially, I can't play DVD's unless I'm running as > root - i.e. mplayer only plays if I'm root, but xine refuses to play a

DVD playback problems

2006-11-05 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I'm sure there is a simple solution to this problem but I'm not quite sure how to fix it. Bascially, I can't play DVD's unless I'm running as root - i.e. mplayer only plays if I'm root, but xine refuses to play at all. Someone suggested that my user wasn't part of the group cdrom

Re: dvd playback problems - dma, udev, 2.6 kernel

2005-07-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:06:44 +0100 Branden Faulls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hdc:command error: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete > Error} > hdc: command error: error=0x54{AbortedCommand > LastFailedSense=0x05} media issues? i.e. clean the disk? Does it happen on a large number of commercial

Re: dvd playback problems - dma, udev, 2.6 kernel

2005-07-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:36:25 +0100 Branden Faulls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Enabling DMA with hdparm -d1 /dev/scd0 fails.How do I remove > ide-scsi, or is there a way to set the DMA using the udev > rules? Udev is new to me, should I be using it at all? 2.6.x has a vastly different ide

[SOLVED] Re: dvd playback problems - dma, udev, 2.6 kernel

2005-06-25 Thread Branden Faulls
Finally got this worked out. First I set the DVD region on my drive with regionset, which got rid of the seek errors that hdc was complaining of. At this point I could get the DVDs to actually start playing, but then xine or mplayer would quit, complaining of css issues. This seemed odd, since

Re: dvd playback problems - dma, udev, 2.6 kernel

2005-06-25 Thread Branden Faulls
dparm -d1 /dev/scd0 fails.How do I remove > >ide-scsi, or is there a way to set the DMA using the udev > >rules? Udev is new to me, should I be using it at all? > > > >Thanks for any assistance. > > > >Branden Removing ide_scsi from my /etc/modules an

dvd playback problems - dma, udev, 2.6 kernel

2005-06-24 Thread Branden Faulls
I'm trying to get DVD playback working on my Sid system running on an Epia MII mobo. After a recent upgrade from a 2.4 kernel to the 2.6.11 stock kernel, I lost my dvd & cdrom drive. By installing udev and hotplug, I was able to get the drive to appear and have even managed to get Xine to play une

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-07 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 07 January 2003, 05:35 PM +0800): > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:31:24 -0500, > Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > > -- Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > (on Monday, 06 January 2003, 01:57 PM -0600): > > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-07 Thread csj
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:31:24 -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Monday, 06 January 2003, 01:57 PM -0600): > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > > > What dvd playing software are other debian use

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-07 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 07 January 2003, 07:21 AM -0600): > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:54:26PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > I use Ogle; I solved my choppiness by turning on dma: > > > > > > hdparm -q -d1 /dev/h

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-07 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:54:26PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > I use Ogle; I solved my choppiness by turning on dma: > > > > hdparm -q -d1 /dev/hdd(my dvdplayer) > Doh! I hadn't considered that I could turn on dma for a cd/dvd device! > That di

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-07 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Try to compile and run mplayer - is cool www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote : » Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:42:28 -0500 » From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » Subject: dvd playback problems and questio

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 06 January 2003, 07:26 PM -0800): > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > I'm trying to setup my computer to play DVDs, and I'm trying out a > > number of different programs to see which works best. Just for > > in

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I'm trying to setup my computer to play DVDs, and I'm trying out a > number of different programs to see which works best. Just for > informational purposes, the machine I'm using is a 1.7GHz (PIV) with > 256MB RAM, DVD play

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 06 January 2003, 04:13 PM -0500): > Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > >I discovered that Xine worked with the Xshm video mode, but it, too, was > >choppy. I had trouble getting ogle to work in gui mode, so I compiled > >and installed by hand, and

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Crump
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: I discovered that Xine worked with the Xshm video mode, but it, too, was choppy. I had trouble getting ogle to work in gui mode, so I compiled and installed by hand, and that worked. The video is still choppy, but less so than when I used the debian package (wierd).

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 06 January 2003, 01:57 PM -0600): > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > What dvd playing software are other debian users using? anybody > > encounter any of these problems/deficiences? If so, were

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > What dvd playing software are other debian users using? anybody > encounter any of these problems/deficiences? If so, were you able to > correct them? how? I tend to use Ogle, but Xine is nice too. I get a bit of a chop w

dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
I'm trying to setup my computer to play DVDs, and I'm trying out a number of different programs to see which works best. Just for informational purposes, the machine I'm using is a 1.7GHz (PIV) with 256MB RAM, DVD player but no hardware DVD decoder, and an onboard GeForce video card (not sure which