[NBLUG/talk] playing dvd's in debian stable

Dean A. Roman droman at romansystems.com
Mon Dec 11 08:49:44 PST 2006 

I have mplayer working on my RH system perfectly, so you might try mplayer.
I use the gui front end by envoking "gmplayer".

A quick search of the debian packages shows mplayer is available for 
unstable...it might also work with testing..it's worth a try.
I have found a bunch of stuff that needs to be downloaded for it all to 
work correctly though.,,,
If you checkout the debian page for mplayer, you can see all the 
dependancies:  http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/mplayer
You may be missing a necessary library such as libdvdread.
   Developer Info on mplayer:  http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mplayer.html

I found another mplayer site that has some good info(instructions), 
binaries, and codecs for mplayer:  http://www.mplayer.org/software


Hope all the helped...good luck,
   ---Dean Roman.




Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:

>--- Chris Wagner <waggie at waggie.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Mr. Hearthstone, would you be willing to describe
>>what actions you have
>>tried so far?  This would assist in us helping you.
>>
>>- Chris Wagner
>>    
>>
>
>Hearthstone:
>Thanks!
>
>I have been trying to play dvd's for about a couple of
>months now. I tried everything I could think of. I
>installed all kinds of programs that I thought would
>"do the trick".
>I searched the Internet. Found a lot of stuff, some
>good, some not. None worked.
>The drive (the only optical drive that I have) plays
>CD's OK.
>
>It seems that the player is installed?:
>truehome:~# dmesg | grep DVD
>hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-230A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>truehome:~# 
>
>This is what I get when trying to use various dvd
>players:
>
>truehome:~# mplayer /dev/dvd
>MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
>CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III
>Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping:
>6)
>CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1
>SSE2: 0
>Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
>
>
>Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024):
>Invalid argument
>Try adding "echo 1024 >
>/proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
>startup scripts.
>Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
>Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such
>device
>Can't init input joystick
>Setting up LIRC support...
>mplayer: could not connect to socket
>mplayer: Connection refused
>Failed to open LIRC support.
>You will not be able to use your remote control.
>
>Playing /dev/dvd.
>Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll,
>/avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll,
>/usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll
>Seek failed
>
>
>Exiting... (End of file)
>truehome:~# 
>truehome:~# vlc /dev/dvd
>VLC media player 0.8.2-svn Janus
>libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: Failed
>to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:
>No such file or directory
>[00000251] main playlist: adding playlist item
>`/dev/dvd' ( /dev/dvd )
>libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from
>http://dvd.sf.net
>libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD
>access
>libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
>libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a
>DVD-ROM device.
>libdvdnav: Unable to find map file
>'/root/.dvdnav/.map'
>libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
>libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
>[00000251] main playlist: adding playlist item `hdc' (
>/dev/dvd/hdc )
>libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from
>http://dvd.sf.net
>libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD
>access
>libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd/hdc with
>libdvdcss.
>libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd/hdc for reading
>libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
>[00000270] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000270] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
>[00000270] access_file access error: file /dev/dvd/hdc
>is empty, aborting
>[00000270] cdda access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000270] cdda access error: no audio tracks found
>[00000273] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000273] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
>[00000273] access_file access error: file /dev/dvd/hdc
>is empty, aborting
>[00000273] cdda access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000273] cdda access error: no audio tracks found
>[00000268] main input error: no suitable access module
>for `/dev/dvd/hdc'
>libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from
>http://dvd.sf.net
>libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD
>access
>libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd/hdc with
>libdvdcss.
>libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd/hdc for reading
>libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
>[00000276] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000276] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
>[00000276] access_file access error: file /dev/dvd/hdc
>is empty, aborting
>[00000276] cdda access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000276] cdda access error: no audio tracks found
>[00000277] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000277] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
>[00000277] access_file access error: file /dev/dvd/hdc
>is empty, aborting
>[00000277] cdda access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000277] cdda access error: no audio tracks found
>[00000274] main input error: no suitable access module
>for `/dev/dvd/hdc'
>libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from
>http://dvd.sf.net
>libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD
>access
>libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd/hdc with
>libdvdcss.
>libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd/hdc for reading
>libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
>[00000280] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000280] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
>[00000280] access_file access error: file /dev/dvd/hdc
>is empty, aborting
>[00000280] cdda access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000280] cdda access error: no audio tracks found
>[00000281] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000281] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
>[00000281] access_file access error: file /dev/dvd/hdc
>is empty, aborting
>[00000281] cdda access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000281] cdda access error: no audio tracks found
>[00000278] main input error: no suitable access module
>for `/dev/dvd/hdc'
>libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from
>http://dvd.sf.net
>libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD
>access
>libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd/hdc with
>libdvdcss.
>libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd/hdc for reading
>libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
>[00000284] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[00000284] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
>[00000284] access_file access error: file /dev/dvd/hdc
>is empty, aborting
>[00000284] cdda access error: could not read TOCHDR
>[000
>
>... and so on, forever ...
>
>truehome:~# kaffeine /dev/dvd
>QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being
>used
>QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being
>used
>QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being
>used
>QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being
>used
>kbuildsycoca running...
>kaffeine: No DVB device found.
>kaffeine: Window manager: not KWin - using save
>fullscreen mode
>kaffeine: Kaffeine:: Try to load service:
>kaffeine_part
>kaffeine: This is a KMediaPart...
>kaffeine: KaffeinePart: Creating new KaffeinePart...
>kaffeine: PlayList: add 1 items to playlist
>kaffeine: PlayList: Check for
>kaffeine/noatun/m3u/pls/asx playlist
>kaffeine: PlayList: Try loading kaffeine playlist
>kaffeine: PlaylistImport: kaffeine:
>/root/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine/playlists/NEW.kaffeine
>kaffeine: Kaffeine: Loading /root/Desktop/Music/10
>Bach (JS)_ Brandenburg Concerto #.m4a at 0. Resume
>Playback: true. Exists: true. Playing: false. Paused:
>false.
>kaffeine: PlayList: add 1 items to playlist
>kaffeine: PlayList: Add Directory: /dev/dvd
>kaffeine: Kaffeine: Set screensaver timeout to: 2 min
>truehome:~# 
>
>
>
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Dean A. Roman
E-mail: droman at romansystems.com


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