Xine Error reading from DVD

[mightymulatto]

I'm having a problem with xine and it's front ends giving me "unable to read from DVD errors"

 

 

Here's the exact text comming from Kaffeine front end.

 

The source can't be read.

Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g: no disc in drive). (Error reading from DVD.)

 

 

I've looked into checking the permissions on the DVD drive and made sure my user was apart of the cdrom group as suggested on the xine site.

 

Running xine check yields the following:

 

 

Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...

[ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests

[ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.

[ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.6.17-5mdv)

[ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support

[ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.

[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine

[ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH

[ good ] found /usr/local/bin/xine-config in your PATH

[ good ] plugin directory /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4 exists.

[ good ] found input plugins

[ good ] found demux plugins

[ good ] found decoder plugins

[ good ] found video_out plugins

[ good ] found audio_out plugins

[OUCH!!] no skin directory (/usr/local/share/xine/skins)

The skin-directory doesn't exist. xine-config claims that there

is a skin directory at /usr/local/share/xine/skins.

However, there is no such directory.

You probably need to reinstall xine-ui.

press <enter> to continue...

 

[ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdc

[ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/hdc

[ good ] DMA is enabled for your DVD drive

[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2

[ good ] your Xv extension supports YV12 overlays (improves MPEG performance)

[ good ] your Xv extension supports YUY2 overlays

[ good ] Xv ports: RGBA RGBT RGB2 YUY2 UYVY YV12 I420

 

 

 

from reading the discription of the only OUCH! leads me to think this may not be related to the problem. Running KDE wizard detects xine and libdvdcss and says that it should work.

 

Any help?

[aRTee]

Could you reinstall xine-ui?

urpmi xine-ui

 

Are you running a 64bit system (core 2 duo, athlon64)?

 

Can you view dvds with mplayer? Make sure the mplayer-gui package is installed and use the command

gmplayer

to start it, then see if it will play (right click the video window for options; 'preferences' is where you can indicate your dvd drive).

 

Do you have more than one drive? The videoplayer must be trying the correct one...