Guest Supah_Rob Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 Heya everyone. I have been using Mandrake 9.1 for nearly 2 weeks now. I REALLY like it. I have (nearly) everything working the way I want it, but one thing is bugging me...I cant get DVD's to play. First, the setup: I am using mdk on a Laptop and the DVD drive is actually a combo DVD/CD-RW drive. On Redhat 8.0 and 9.0 I needed to do a ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd and then DVD's would play just fine. When I try to do that in mdk, I get: ln: `/dev/dvd': File exists Now for completly unrelated reasons I needed to reinstall this morning, so before I did, I deleted the /dev/dvd file-thing and then created the symbolic link, still no luck. After the fresh install (wiped out partitions and everything) its the same thing, although I have not yet deleted the /dev/dvd file-thing. Now what happens is this: when I try to play a DVD through either Xine, Mplayer, KMplayer or XMovie, the program apparantly tries FOREVER to open the DVD, and nothing ever happens. If I wait for like (literally) 2 minutes, I hear the DVD spin up, then spin back down...but nothnig else happens. As an added 'benifit' when I put a DVD in the drive I cant eject it. When press the eject button on the drive, nothing happens. I have to log out of X to get the drive to open. Now as a CD-Rom drive or burner the drive works perfect, no problems at all. So....anyone got any ideas? I know very little about linux, but I am learning more everyday, and I would sure like to learn how to fix this issue today Thank you, Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted April 19, 2003 Report Share Posted April 19, 2003 I don't know if I can help but there we go.. I had to install special packages on my system to be able to play DVDs. This is due to one reason -> The DVDs are encrypted! So I installed xine-d5d, xine-d4d, libdvdnav-0.1.3 and xine-dvdnav-0.9.13 to be able to read them. Now I have 3 new buttons on my Xine UI. I have NAV, d5d and d4d. Before to install those packages I only had VCD, DVD and CDA. Notice that the DVD will no play if I clic the DVD button for the simple reason that this button call the library to read unencryted DVDs. So I really have to press the d5d button and then I can navigate the DVD. BTW I use Xine ONLY. You can download those packages from this website: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~jcm/...de/XINE-0.9.13/ Hope I can help a bit. MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Supah_Rob Posted April 22, 2003 Report Share Posted April 22, 2003 Thank you very much! Worked great!! Thanks, Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest myates Posted April 23, 2003 Report Share Posted April 23, 2003 I use Ogle for DVD playing. It seems simpler than Xine to me and does a better job with menus. You can download here: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ There are very simple instructions for installing using rpm (including support for decryption). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest llorgge Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 I don't know if I can help but there we go.. I had to install special packages on my system to be able to play DVDs. This is due to one reason -> The DVDs are encrypted! So I installed xine-d5d, xine-d4d, libdvdnav-0.1.3 and xine-dvdnav-0.9.13 to be able to read them. Now I have 3 new buttons on my Xine UI. I have NAV, d5d and d4d. Before to install those packages I only had VCD, DVD and CDA. Notice that the DVD will no play if I clic the DVD button for the simple reason that this button call the library to read unencryted DVDs. So I really have to press the d5d button and then I can navigate the DVD. BTW I use Xine ONLY. You can download those packages from this website: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~jcm/...de/XINE-0.9.13/ Hope I can help a bit. MOttS I went to that page and downloaded and installed everything from it (although I didn't see d5d nor d4d). Everything seemed to go well, but nothing happenend when I started xine. That is to say that it was just as I left it; I still can't play DVD's. Any ideas? Afterthought: I found d5d, but in order to install it I needed xine-lib >= 9.13, so I get that. Unfortunately, that's dependant on libogg and libvorbis, which I believe I have, but it says I don't. So I download each of those and try to install (and update) and it says it's in conflict with my older ones, which I do have. I'm still a noob, and I'm using rpms, but I thought the rpm -U would take care of updating the files... It's probably something simple i'm doing wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 I've had problems getting the d5d and d4d packages to work with MDK 9.1 as well. As temporary solution I've been using Ogle and mplayer which don't seem to suffer the same problems. But I prefer Xine, so as soon as I work out what I'm doing wrong I'll transfere back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 You seem to have dep_hell with some of the RPMS. Try this. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=6090 Once you have done that you can go to a command line and "urpmi xine" And also "urpmi ogle" For Xine, after you do "urpmi xine" you can go into rpmdrake (or Install Software in MCC) and search for xine. The d5d package will be in the search results. Install it and any dependencies. Good luck!! James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest llorgge Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 I updated my sources with EasyURPMI and then went ahead. Here's what happened (mind you I have all of these rpms already downloaded): [1536][root: rpm]$ urpmi xine-d5d-plugin-0.2.7-3.i686.rpm The following packages have bad signatures: xine-d5d-plugin-0.2.7-3.i686.rpm Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y installing xine-d5d-plugin-0.2.7-3.i686.rpm Installation failed: xine-lib == 0.9.13 is needed by xine-d5d-plugin-0.2.7-3 [1536][root: rpm]$ urpmi xine-lib-0.9.13-1.i686.rpm The following packages have bad signatures: xine-lib-0.9.13-1.i686.rpm Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y installing xine-lib-0.9.13-1.i686.rpm Installation failed: libogg is needed by xine-lib-0.9.13-1 libvorbis is needed by xine-lib-0.9.13-1 [1537][root: rpm]$ urpmi libogg-1.0-5.i386.rpm The following packages have bad signatures: libogg-1.0-5.i386.rpm Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y installing libogg-1.0-5.i386.rpm Preparing... ################################################## Installation failed: file /usr/lib/libogg.so.0.4.0 from install of libogg-1.0-5 conflicts with file from package libogg0-1.0-3mdk Am I missing something or did I just not read something carefully? What does one do when packages conflict with others?? Thanks for your help so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 the pacakage is conflicing with a previous (older) version of the same package...do rpm -Uvh libogg-1.0-5.i386.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest llorgge Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 Thanks, but I already tried that too. [1807][root: rpm]$ rpm -Uvh libogg-1.0-5.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file /usr/lib/libogg.so.0.4.0 from install of libogg-1.0-5 conflicts with file from package libogg0-1.0-3mdk I thought that would work, but it has the same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 Give this a try: rpm -e libogg-1.0-3 or urpme libogg-1.0-3 Then: rpm -ivh libogg-1.0-5.i386.rpm or urpmi libogg-1.0-5 See if that helps your problem. I realize that the -Uvh should fix the problem, but someimes you have to try the long way to get the job done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest llorgge Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 I was really hopeful on that one. Unfortunately, if I uninstall this file, it have to take my entire :wink: computer with it. [2247][root: rpm]$ urpme libogg0-1.0-3mdk To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be removed (171 MB): arts-1.1.0-2mdk galaxy-kde-0.2-22.1mdk galaxy-kde-kwin-0.2-22.1mdk gnome-telnet-2.4-4mdk gnome2-2.2.0-1mdk grip-3.0.5-1mdk k3b-0.8.1-3mdk kde-i18n-en_GB-3.1-1mdk kdeadmin-3.1-8mdk kdeartwork-kde-classic-3.1-3mdk kdebase-3.1-83.3mdk kdebase-nsplugins-3.1-83.3mdk kdebase-servicemenu-1.0-7.2mdk kdegraphics-3.1-9.1mdk kdelibs-3.1-58.1mdk kdelibs-common-3.1-58.1mdk kdemultimedia-3.1-10mdk kdenetwork-3.1-31mdk kdepim-3.1-17mdk kdetoys-3.1-5mdk kdeutils-3.1-9mdk krootwarning-9.1-5mdk krozat-9.1-2mdk libarts-1.1.0-2mdk libogg0-1.0-3mdk libvorbis0-1.0-6mdk libvorbisenc2-1.0-6mdk libvorbisfile3-1.0-6mdk lisa-3.1-31mdk mandrake-galaxy-9.1-21mdk mdkkdm-9.1-24mdk mdklaunchhelp-9.1-3mdk nautilus-2.2.1-5mdk quanta-3.1-19mdk rmxmms-0.4-1 sox-12.17.3-4mdk vorbis-tools-1.0-2mdk xine-dvdnav-1-0.beta4.1mdk xine-plugins-1-0.beta4.1mdk xine-ui-0.9.18-1mdk xmms-1.2.7-18mdk xmms-arts-0.4-8mdk xmms-more-vis-plugins-1.6.0-2mdk xmms-skins-1.0.0-13mdk Is this OK? (Y/n) But that does seem as if it would work... then I could install the new one in its stead. --------- It's the same thing in another direction: [2248][root: rpm]$ rpm -e libogg0-1.0-3mdk error: removing these packages would break dependencies: libogg0 >= 1.0-1mdk is needed by vorbis-tools-1.0-2mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by libvorbisfile3-1.0-6mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by libvorbis0-1.0-6mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by libvorbisenc2-1.0-6mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by libarts-1.1.0-2mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by arts-1.1.0-2mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by xmms-1.2.7-18mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by vorbis-tools-1.0-2mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by sox-12.17.3-4mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-3.1-10mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by xine-plugins-1-0.beta4.1mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by k3b-0.8.1-3mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by kdelibs-3.1-58.1mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by kdelibs-common-3.1-58.1mdk libogg.so.0 is needed by kdebase-3.1-83.3mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 Well, I can help you out with some of the dependencies. If you have texstar as a source for urpmi you can type urpmi kdebase-3.1.2 and upgrade KDE to the more current version. That will download and upgrade all of the kde packages, which are included as most of those dependencies. Give it a try and see what happens there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest llorgge Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 Thanks! I'm still a n00b, but does it matter if I generally use Gnome instead of KDE, or are we not talking about my GUI preference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 That doesn't matter. Most of the dependencies that are listed there are for KDE, so even if you don't use it, I would still upgrade it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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