Yuyo Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 I am generally very impressed with Mandrake 9.2. It seems more stable and faster than any other edition I have used. For instance, using my external USB2 drive used to lock the computer hard. Now it works perfectly. It is however not without problems. Among them: *DVD playback. I added the plf source to urpmi and proceeded to install Ogle, which has always run great. Now, opening a DVD causes the program to seg-fault and quit. I just discovered the included Totem Multimedia player that appears to be able to play DVDs. What do you have to do to make Totem play DVDs? Alternately, is someone using Ogle successfully with 9.2? If so, how, and where did you get your rpms? Finally, Totem plays music CDs perfectly, it even grabs the CDinfo from the web. KSCD will "play" them, but it produces no sound. If you can throw an light on the above and how you went about resolving it, I'd be thankful. Good day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 I've tried to add plf several times but the sites for 9.2 are not ready yet. It's failed every time I tried. It probably won't be up and running for a couple weeks. Which makes me wonder what plf site you added to your sources. The 9.1 rpms probably won't work. If that's what you used I'd uninstall them and wait for plf's 9.2 site to get up and running. I don't have any problems with KSCD. Check your configuration and make sure the device is listed as /dev/cdrom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 ftp://213.232.94.69/pub/PLF/mandrake/9.2 :wink: Thanks anon! just did; urpmi ogle ogle_gui ...and it works as all the others. Sometimes, totem's sound gets screwy though. To play dvd's? Do; urpmf dvd and install all dvd libs and applicable apps. [root@localhost root]# rpm -qa | grep dvd libdvdread3-0.9.4-2mdk libdvdcss2-1.2.8-1plf libdvdread2-0.9.3-4mdk libdvdcontrol9-0.9.1-7plf [root@localhost root]# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuyo Posted October 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Dear Mandrakians, After being unable to play DVDs by using the Ogle rpms available through plf, I decided to do a little bit of research. Now I have perfect playback and I thought this info might benefit other folks. To get Ogle to play in Mandrake 9.2,you need to install the the following package from the third CD of the download distribution: XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm Then, Go to this page: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtm Where you will find a convenient link for the following rpms: libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm ogle-0.9.1-fr3.i386.rpm ogle_gui-0.9.1-fr2.i386.rpm I used the freshrpms link for each of the above. Make sure you download theactual rpm and not the devel or source package. Install each the usual way,i.e. rpm -ivh "nameofrpm" That's it. Enjoy perfect and beautiful DVD playback in Mandrake 9.2. But it gets even better. Once you install the above. Totem, the media player included with Mandrake will be able to play your DVDs too. So now you have mp3, DVD, CDs and mpeg playback from a very cool looking app. I am having fun and enjoying this new release. Ps: The plf packages for Ogle are junk. I repeat junk, so don't bother using them. And I was using the 9.2 plf available through easy urpmi. Anyway the above works perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Seems the PLF rpms suck. Hey, nobody's perfect... Here's a Usenet post that explains how to get it working right. Thanks to Gonzalo for posting this info! Be aware that I haven't done this myself, but it has been confirmed to work by others: From: Gonzalo <nomail@nomail.com> Subject: Here's how to play DVDs in Mandrake 9.2 Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:00:37 -0400 Message-ID: <1pucnVVnJ86vbg2iXTWJkQ@dsli.com> Dear Mandrakians, After being unable to play DVDs by using the Ogle rpms available through plf, I decided to do a little bit of research. Now I have perfect playback and I thought this info might benefit other folks. To get Ogle to play in Mandrake 9.2,you need to install the the following package from the third CD of the download distribution: XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm Then, Go to this page: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtm Where you will find a convenient link for the following rpms: libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm ogle-0.9.1-fr3.i386.rpm ogle_gui-0.9.1-fr2.i386.rpm I used the freshrpms link for each of the above. Make sure you download the actual rpm and not the devel or source package. Install each the usual way, i.e. rpm -ivh "nameofrpm" That's it. Enjoy perfect and beautiful DVD playback in Mandrake 9.2. The plf packages for Ogle are junk. I repeat junk, so don't bother using them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 :? :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Don't know about Ogle, but if you install bvc's libraries, totem will play dvds as well. In fact it seems to play just about everything. Xine and mplayer from plf work fine to. By the way, thanks for the link bvc :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Thank anon, it's our ftp. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83mercedes Posted November 14, 2003 Report Share Posted November 14, 2003 Finally, Totem plays music CDs perfectly, it even grabs the CDinfo from the web. KSCD will "play" them, but it produces no sound. I have the same problem with kscd 'playing' an audio CD with 'no sound'. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted November 14, 2003 Report Share Posted November 14, 2003 PLF is fine. Don't install RH rpms. Easyurpmi was ( is ) not updated, by selecting mdk9.2 you get 9.1 repository links --- just check the links you have to use on your resources stuff; update them to the correct 9.2 repositories and all is fine; naturally using old 9.1 plf packages messes up the system. BTW all I had to do is install the 9.1 (hey, had my sources set wrong too) libdvdcss2 from plf, urpmi libdvdcss and xine and mplayer worked fine with dvd's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitor Posted November 14, 2003 Report Share Posted November 14, 2003 What do you mean aRTee that Easy urpmi gives 9.1 links when selecting 9.2? When I do so the links I get clearly have 9.2 in their path. Would be strange that an FTP server would have 9.1 stuff in a 9.2 folder. I hope that you ARE right though, because I'm having already since two weeks problems with rpmdrake (since I redid my sources with Easy urpmi), and that might be the answer. I always get a message complaining of the Contrib list file being invalid. Same problem as the guys in these threads are having: 9.2 - medium "contrib" uses an invalid list file: and medium "contrib" uses an invalid list file I tried everything to get rid of that problem, but nothing seems to work. I can still install software by simply downloading the rpm and running from Konqueror, but it is a pain for the bug and security updates. So I hope it is indeed so that Easy Urpmi is giving us wrong links. Can you confirm? Thanks in advance, Sitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted November 14, 2003 Report Share Posted November 14, 2003 Go to: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ fill in 9.2 then continue, but check: it has come back to 9.1, and the urpmi.addmedia have 9.1 in their paths (just checked, it's not fixed yet). Just check in mcc software section, repositories, check your paths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Satagius Posted November 14, 2003 Report Share Posted November 14, 2003 I have the same error "contrib invalid list file" I think it was generated by the last contrib update... I hope it will be fixed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitor Posted November 14, 2003 Report Share Posted November 14, 2003 Looks like you are right aRTee. I went to the mirrors list on the MandrakeClub site and used the mirrors given there. Now I can indeed use the Update again. Thanks a lot for the help. Sitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted November 14, 2003 Report Share Posted November 14, 2003 You can just go to nanardon site, then adjust the links given for 9.1 -- browse over to the repositories on ftp, check what the correct location is for 9.2 on the same ftp server, and change the commands accordingly. And voila, easyurpmi the not so easy way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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