Alternative to gstreamer & lib-xine

[David Berg]

albi albinootje wrote:
> On 11/16/06, David Berg <drberg1000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Playing a movie on my system using lib-xine causes a audio sync problems
>> with dvds which makes watching a dvd rather frustrating.  Gstreamer
>> doesn't have DVD menu support yet and as a result I can't always see
>> with I want on a DVD.
>>
>> Is there any other backend I can use while bugs and features are sorted
>> out?
> 
> mplayer, ogle, vlc, and totem should all be able to play dvd's properly,

Totem doesn't work with either xine or gstream back ends.  I'll have to 
try the other three.

> you might have to do some post-install manually though, YMMV
> 
> a working mplayer is usually the best, although i like totem with xine-backend
> 
> ..did you enable DMA for your dvd-drive ?

Yup.
dberg at ubuntu:~$ hdparm /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
  using_dma    =  1 (on)
  keepsettings =  0 (off)
  readonly     =  0 (off)
  readahead    = 256 (on)
  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device


Thanks.

--Dave