Kaffeine in Kubuntu 8.04 is no longer borked.

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 02 September 2008 16:27, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Rod Lovett <rodlovett at ozemail.com.au>

> > The real problem here is that that system (kaffiene??) is giving this
> > encryption error. That is wrong and misleading.
>
> You're right - _that_ would seem to be a kaffeine/xine error, and is the
> only thing that kaffeine/xine is doing wrong (wrt this situation, anyway).
>
> > It can't access the
> > disk so it thinks it is the encryption when it is that the disk does
> > not exist. Some dev somewhere needs to fix that. I would file and
> > error report but I am not even sure where to file it.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/230670
>
> You & Rod should both comment on it (though I'm pretty sure this is not a
> HAL problem, as stated - no wonder it isn't getting any attention).
>
> > I don't think it
> > is Kaffiene because you get the error from other players too. Maybe
> > xine??
>
> Again, you're probably right.
>
> btw, always search bugs.launchpad.net first - you'd have found this, and
> the workaround, by mid May. (in fact, a simple google for "kaffeine
> encryption error" finds this bug report...)
> --
> derek

I'll come in on this thread if I may, as I can't get Kaffeine to play DVD's 
either. Whether there is a DVD in the drive or not, I get these complaints 
about needing libdvdcss to be installed, but it already is. Kaffeine will 
play audio CD's with not problem. Both the /dev/cdrom, and dev/dvd symlinks 
are pointing to /dev/scd0 on Kubuntu HH 8.04, and to /dev/hda on GG 7.10, 
which are both correct.

VLC will play DVD's on both 7.10, and 8.04 with no problems, so the optical 
drive is ok. On 8.04 which I have booted at the mo, VLC is pointing directly 
to /dev/scd0.

I've just installed xine-ui, which has also pulled in libxine1-ffmpeg as a 
dep, and will try xine directly with DVD's.

Watch this space.

Nigel.