Xine-fubar

[Guest Chadd]

hello.

Need some advice please. I am trying to get xine to work correctly. Had the 9.13 going but sound would only work for about 1min and then stop (sounded like the cd would 'spin up'. Video would keep playing but with 'chop' to it and no sound.

Anyway, now working with the Xine beta12. Had it going. It would play but with constatnt chop to sound and video.

 

There are several posts on Mdkorg about Xine and they were of a big help in getting 9.13 up and going initially.

 

Then, I found out about 'hdparm'.

[root@localhost chad]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda

 

/dev/hda:

Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.36 seconds =355.56 MB/sec

Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 20.50 seconds = 3.12 MB/sec

for a : p4 2.53, 512,

 

Well the 3.12mb/sec seems slow and I had it up to about 5mb/sec...still seemed way slow. I think it is because for some reason my dma setting will not switch 'on'.

 

Anyway, I wound up at a site 'Making linux useful' www.piskorski.com/docs/linux.html about halfway down the page I happened on editiong the cd drives

in lilo.config.. Well, I dont even remember why I was trying to do this (except I had been at this one problem for about 12hrs and it was now 5am) something to help with the 'hdparm -d1 .....?

 

This is the last part of what I get when trying to start Xine from the terminal:

 

libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-beta12 from http://xine.sf.net

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access

libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd

Too many levels of symbolic links

libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD

 

I think I have my symbolic links all fubar. Can someone show me how to clean this mess up and get xine working? I was just going to delete xine and start again (I have done it about 4x in the last day) but I'm not sure if that will help or make it worse due to the symolic links? All the archives have been a big help but, I'm in a bit deep and not sure what to do.

Thanks

chad

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Whatever the device name of your dvd player is in /etc/fstab (the one that actually works when you mount it...not video or music, but actual filesystem disks) should be what /dev/dvd is linked to. Example: My DVD ROM is /dev/hdc so I would do

 

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd

 

 

(If /dev/dvd already exists as a symlink, I have to rm -f /dev/dvd before doing the above)

So, if you do that you should see something like this when you run

 

ls -l /dev/dvd

 

lr--r---- root root 10, 1 /dev/dvd -->/dev/hdc

 

 

What may have happened is that you use a /dev/cdrom symlink which is linked to /dev/hdc for playing music with xmms and then linked /dev/dvd to that symlink. If it's all fubar like that, you'll see something like this:

 

ls -l /dev/dvd

 

lr--r----- root root 10, 1 /dev/dvd --> /dev/cdrom

 

ls -l /dev/cdrom

 

lr--r----- root root 10, 2 /dev/cdrom --> /dev/hdc

[johnnyv]

Then, I found out about 'hdparm'.  

[root@localhost chad]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda

 

/dev/hda:

Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.36 seconds =355.56 MB/sec

Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 20.50 seconds =  3.12 MB/sec

for a : p4 2.53, 512,  

 

Well the 3.12mb/sec seems slow and I had it up to about 5mb/sec...still seemed way slow. I think it is because for some reason my dma setting will not switch 'on'.

 

with a 7200 rpm ide hard disk ( i assume your hda is a hard disk) buffered disks reads should be 40 + MB/sec or so it is on my systems.

 

here's a link cannonfodder posted a while ago

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/20.../29/hdparm.html

 

Be carefull incorrect settings can damage your hard drive.

[Guest Chadd]

[chad@localhost chad]$ ls -l /dev/dvd

lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Jun 3 10:27 /dev/dvd -> /mnt/cdrom/

 

Thanks Steve!

That helped. Before the /dev etc..etc...had RED flashing blocks around it!

 

This is the output of xine from a terminal:

 

Built with xine library 1.0.0 (1-beta12)

Found xine library version: 1.0.0 (1-beta12).

XServer Vendor: Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.2.1, patch level 3mdk). Release: 40201000,

Protocol Version: 11, Revision: 0,

Available Screen(s): 1, using 0

Depth: 24.

XShmQueryVersion: 1.1.

-[ xiTK version 0.10.3 ]-

-[ xiTK will use XShm ]-

-[ WM type: (EWMH) KWIN {KWin} ]-

Display is not using Xinerama.

main: probing <aadxr3> video output plugin

load_plugins: failed to load video output plugin <aadxr3>

main: probing <dxr3> video output plugin

load_plugins: failed to load video output plugin <dxr3>

main: probing <xv> video output plugin

xine_interface: unknown param 10

xine_interface: unknown param 10

xine_interface: unknown param 10

xine_interface: unknown param 10

vo_scale: invalid ratio, using 4:3

vo_scale: unknown aspect ratio (0) in stream => using 4:3

libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-beta12 from http://xine.sf.net

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access

libdvdread: Attempting to use device none mounted on /mnt/cdrom for CSS authentication

libdvdread: Could not open none with libdvdcss.

libdvdread: Can't open none for reading

libdvdread: Device none inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.

libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.

libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/chad/.dvdnav/.map'

libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 1

load_plugins: plugin dxr3-spudec failed to instantiate itself.

libspudec:init_plugin called

input_dvd: Error getting next block from DVD (Error reading NAV packet.)

 

Not sure what this is all about. Looks like a mess.

[Guest Chadd]

johnnyv,

Thanks for the link, http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/20.../29/hdparm.html

I read the article once but forgot about it. I will read it again now see if I missed something.

Thanks

chadd

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Is your dvd player a combo cd writer/dvd rom or maybe a dvd writer?

[Guest Chadd]

Steve,

No, just dvd (generic). I have a seperate cdw.