----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What problems are you seeing with xine? Please elaborate on "xine was > leading me in circles". > > I could be wrong, but I think that mplayer and xine are mutally > exclusive within MythTV. You should probably focus on which one you > want to use, and work out the issues with it. > I chose xine because Jarod's Guide mentioned that it would use the DVD > menus. And while using the default mplayer commands, I didn't see a > menu, so I made the switch. > So far, it works great for playing DVDs, although I have not > successfully ripped a DVD yet.
Well, I went back and tried Xine as the DVD player last night. Overall things were much better. The biggest problem I encountered (other than it locking up occasionally during disc navigation) was it not changing the screen resolution back when I quit Xine. Also, while it will technically allow you to navigate menus, in practice it is god-awful at it. Also, while I'm sure I have some learning to do the playback controls blow. The jumps are seemingly random, there's no title/chapter navigation, and in general it is just barely usable. I'm feeling pretty negative about Xine right now, because all this had a very negative impact last night. The ISF tech was there to calibrate my RPTV. Obviously, these navigation problems prevented us from putting up the necessary test patterns from my Myth box, so I just have to hope that the outputs are close to what his HD generator produced. Is there a REAL full-featured playback solution for DVD's yet? Did I miss something essential in Xine even though I read the docs and readme. One general observation about the linux community: Stop with the easter egg hunt mentality, please! I have been fighting installation problems for weeks now, and finding seemingly basic information is excruciatingly hard. One very simple example: Why do the docs say "See man mount (5)", when the actual way to get to the information is "man 5 mount"? And guess what ISN'T documented in the default man page? You guessed it, the syntax for pulling whatever the heck is referenced in parentheses! Stop being cryptic for the fun of it. I've been fighting what are probably elementary problems for weeks now, and no help has been forthcoming on any of the mailing lists or forums where I have posted questions. This is incredibly frustrating, and I can't help but shake my head in bemusement whenever I hear a linux advocate saying "but we have the better OS, why does everyone insist on using WinBlows?" Sorry it devolved into a rant, but I'm just about ready to chuck it all. And before you dismiss me as some neophyte luser, I was developing on Unix systems 20 years ago, although not in the past 10 years. I'm a professional software developer, and am no slouch at solving problems when they come up. After all this time, this stuff should not STILL be this hard. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
