[TriLUG] question about xine

[Tanner Lovelace]

rpjday wrote:

>   ok, i've downloaded and installed xine (along with its prerequisite
> libdvdcss and libdvdread libs), manually created a /dev/dvd file and
> symlinked it to /dev/scd0, my dvd/cd-rw drive.
> 
>   when i run xine, sure enough, i get the ui, but when i press play,
> i get
> 
>   xine-panel: PLAY
>   xine_play: xine open xine-ui version ... blah blah ...
>   xine: cannot find input plugin for this MRL
> 
> the dvd was automatically mounted at /mnt/cdrom1, and has a directory
> structure of 
> 
>   audio_ts  video_ts
> 
> and inside of video_ts, there are numerous .vob files, so that part
> looks good.  what trivial initialization step am i missing?  thanks.
> 
> rday

 From the xine FAQ:

> To play that VOB file use something like
> 
> xine dvd://VTS_xx_x.VOB
> 
> make sure you do not supply any path name (no VIDEO_TS/) and use
> capital letters for the file name.
> 
> xine tries to open the dvd using /dev/cdrom. On freebsd this will only
> work if you create a symlink to your dvd-devicenode for the time being.


If you want it, however, to work like a normal dvd player,
try using the dvdnav plugin
(http://dvd.sourceforge.net/xine-dvdnav.shtml)

This allows you to run xine like this:


xine dvdnav://

and it should act like a normal dvd player...

Tanner
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