[ubuntu-us-ut] Getting Xine to work with some DVDs

[Charles Curley]

I'm having fun gettin xine to work on my laptop with 7.10. It plays
mp2 files just fine:

ccurley at dragon:~/projects/cartoons/whatsoperadoc$ file *
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.mpg: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex
yyyyyyyyyyyyy.mpg:   MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex

Using those two files, I made a DVD on Fedora (using DVDStyler, which
worked quite well and even diagnosed errors in my DVD), and xine on
Ubuntu refused to play it, where xine on the Fedora box played it just
fine.

It plays some movies just fine, not others. I get complaints about not
having the right codecs.

The same DVDs that fail on my laptop run fine on my desktop running
Fedora 7, even though I use the same USB DVD drive on both:

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[root at charlesc ~]# lsusb
Bus 004 Device 009: ID 067b:2507 Prolific Technology, Inc. 
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I have these packages installed:

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root at dragon:~# pre libxine dvdcss codec | sort
libavcodec1d-3:0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu4+medibuntu1--i386
libdvdcss2-1.2.9-2medibuntu4--i386
libxine1-1.1.7-1ubuntu1--i386
libxine1-console-1.1.7-1ubuntu1--i386
libxine1-ffmpeg-1.1.7-1ubuntu1--i386
libxine1-gnome-1.1.7-1ubuntu1--i386
libxine1-plugins-1.1.7-1ubuntu1--all
libxinerama1-2:1.0.2-1build1--i386
w32codecs-20071007-0medibuntu1--i386
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xine-check reports:

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Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...
[ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests
[ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.
[ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.6.22-14-generic)
[ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support
[ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.
[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
[ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH
[ hint ] No xine-config found. Assuming xine from Debian package
         The xine-config script can be used to determine some file locations
         used by xine-lib, but you don't have such a script on your system.
         However, it looks like you installed xine from the Debian packages.
         So I'll just guess that you are using the standard locations.
         If you want me to be sure about those file locations, you can install
         the 'libxine-dev' package, which contains xine-config. However, this
         package is not really needed to run xine...
         press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins exists.
[OUCH!!] There are no input plugins.
         xine needs at least one input plugin, but none is installed.
         You should probably reinstall xine-lib...
         press <enter> to continue...

[OUCH!!] There are no demux plugins.
         xine needs at least one demux plugin, but none is installed.
         You should probably reinstall xine-lib...
         press <enter> to continue...

[OUCH!!] There are no decoder plugins.
         xine needs at least one decoder plugin, but none is installed.
         You should probably reinstall xine-lib...
         press <enter> to continue...

[OUCH!!] There are no video_out plugins.
         xine needs at least one video_out plugin, but none is installed.
         You should probably reinstall xine-lib...
         press <enter> to continue...

[OUCH!!] There are no audio_out plugins.
         xine needs at least one audio_out plugin, but none is installed.
         You should probably reinstall xine-lib...
         press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] skin directory /usr/share/xine/skins exists.
[ good ] found logo in /usr/share/xine/skins
[ good ] I even found some skins.
[ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/scd0
[ hint ] /dev/dvd is /dev/scd1, not a DVD device
         /dev/dvd is the default device that xine uses for playing DVDs.
         You could make your life easier by creating a symlink named /dev/dvd
         pointing to your DVD device (something like /dev/scd0 or /dev/hdc).
         If your DVD-ROM device is /dev/hdb (slave ATAPI device on primary bus),
         rm /dev/dvd
         ln -s hdb /dev/dvd
         typed as root will give you the symlink.
         Alternatively, you can configure xine to use the real device directly,
         using the setup dialog within xine, but I can't check your DMA
         settings in that case...
         press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YV12 overlays (improves MPEG performance)
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YUY2 overlays
[ good ] Xv ports:  RGBA RGBT RGB2 YUY2 UYVY YV12 I420
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There are, of course, plenty of codec and other plugins, but perhaps
xine doesn't know where to find them?

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