On 10-02-2015 20:46, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 03:00:03PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
>> On 16-09-2014 17:14, Ken Moffat wrote: >>> On 7.6 I'm having problems playing DVDs. My drive shows up as >>> /dev/sr0, and has a /dev/cdrom symlink but not /dev/dvd : that much >>> is not new. >> >> Same here. >> >> LFS-7.5, i686 s/7.5/7.6/ > Sorry it has taken me a week and a half to reply to this, but I've > only now got round to _testing_ AV applications on my 20150127 build. No worries. Thanks for replying. > So, these comments relate to how things were before you updated > libdvdread and libdvdnav. > >>> As I've previously noted, vlc is unusable for playng DVDs - plays a >>> few seconds, then pauses for a few seconds - but it works enough to >>> show that libdvdcss is installed. >> >> It works fine here. >> > > It has _never_ worked correctly for me when playing DVDs! > Unfortunately, I cannot test it in this system because I was tempted > to try building Qt5 (full, including the web part, for qupzilla) > instead of Qt4 - posts in forums implied that vlc would now work > with Qt5, but the book is correct. I'll be reverting to Qt4 for > future builds. >>> In xine, I can only play from the DVD option on the menu if I've >>> made a /dev/symlink - and that, of course, goes when I power off. >>> But under those circumstances it works. >> >> Well, it did not play at all, complaining about "Missing symbols in >> libdvdcss". Then, I assumed I needed to use the system libdvdnav, so >> xine-lib would probably use system libdvdcss, which worked fine with vlc. >> Given your problems, I tried to see if some configuration would help, >> and found a solution. I edit file ~/.xine/config and added: >> >> gui.osdmenu.dvd_mountpoint:/dev/sr0 >> media.dvd.device:/dev/sr0 >> media.dvd.raw_device:/dev/sr0 >> > > I remembered to test with the symlink, and my current thought is > that I should look at trying to create a /dev/dvd symlink as well as > /dev/cdrom. > > xine worked without any problem. OK. >> and it worked (seems that default, commented out in original file) is >> /dvd or, more probably, your /dev/symlink (?). >> >> FWIW, also added: >> >> gui.experience_level:Advanced >> >> necessary to have options for video driver. Can also be defined in the >> config file: >> >> video.driver:xv >> >> Without this, it was trying to use libvdpau, which is installed but not >> appropriate for vmware. >> > > Ah, you are in a VM. I have never attempted to fix up the audio, > or the external drive, for use in qemu. I take my hat off to you > for getting working sound in a VM. ;-) > >> Also added: >> >> audio.driver:alsa >> >> because pulse is installed, but not being used in LXDE. >> > > Oh, you poor fellow, fancy polluting your system with that. *grin* I needed it for some book update. This is my dev machine, more than half of the installed packages wouldn't go in one for my personal use. :-( >>> With lsdvd and transcode I >>> have managed to extract a vob file - again specifying /dev/sr0 - and >>> both xine and parole can play that. Actually, I just tried that in >>> vlc, again it only plays for a second two before pausing, so I >>> guess my vlc problem is with the dvd libs (it's fine with the mp4 I >>> made using ffmpeg). >> >> These, I haven't tested today. Don't know what lsdvd is. >> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/ - it in effect runs ls on > the contents of a DVD, allowing me to see chapters and tracks to > work out which part I actually want. That is a good package. When I find time, will try it. Thanks. > I'm hoping to test transcode (and ffmpeg/x264) this week, but there > are so many other interesting things to try, and so much music to > either rip from CD, or download from Qobuz and retag. Didn't know about those. >>> >>> But in parole, if I specify /dev/cdrom or /dev/sr0 I get an alert >>> popup: >>> >>> GStreamer backend error >>> Error parsing H.264 stream >> >> I don't get this error, but found >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parole/+bug/1278089/comments/7 >> >> <<running "parole --xv false" and then opening the file in Parole again >> plays the video correctly>> >> >> I'm trying to find how to modify the configuration, without success. >> Discovered, though, that it is in file >> >> ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/parole.xml >> > > For me, with the gstreamer-1.4.5 packages parole played a DVD > without any problem. For me, it plays only the DVD files, not bulk device, without the "xv" option. Thanks, again -- []s, Fernando -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
