How do I play a dvd?

[turbine]

I got 3.3 hdd installed and would like to play dvd's. Xine won't do it. Can't even mount them. Must be missing a simple step. Any ideas what it is?

[baldyeti]

Search for posts mentioning libdvdcss2 - its available somwhere as a debian package but not from the official repositories.

[turbine]

Thanks, baldyeti. I did that, installed same and then here's the messages that I got from xine:


knoppix@nickshp:~$ /usr/bin/xine
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.22.
(c) 2000-2003 The xine Team.
Built with xine library 1.0.0 (1-rc0a)
Found xine library version: 1.0.0 (1-rc2).
XServer Vendor: The XFree86 Project, Inc. Release: 40300000,
Protocol Version: 11, Revision: 0,
Available Screen(s): 1, using 0
Depth: 16.
XShmQueryVersion: 1.1.
-[ xiTK version 0.10.5 ]-
-[ xiTK will use XShm ]-
-[ WM type: (EWMH) KWIN {KWin} ]-
Display is not using Xinerama.
deinterlace: Greedy disabled: required CPU accelleration features unavailable.
deinterlace: Greedy2Frame disabled: required CPU accelleration features unavailable.
deinterlace: Vertical disabled: required CPU accelleration features unavailable.
main: probing <aadxr3> video output plugin
main: probing <dxr3> video output plugin
dxr3_scr: Failed to open control device /dev/em8300-0 (No such file or directory)
main: probing <xv> video output plugin
main: probing <SyncFB> video output plugin
video_out_syncfb: aborting. (unable to open syncfb device "/dev/syncfb")
main: probing <xshm> video output plugin
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
knoppix@nickshp:~$ /usr/bin/xine
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.22.
(c) 2000-2003 The xine Team.
Built with xine library 1.0.0 (1-rc0a)
Found xine library version: 1.0.0 (1-rc2).
XServer Vendor: The XFree86 Project, Inc. Release: 40300000,
Protocol Version: 11, Revision: 0,
Available Screen(s): 1, using 0
Depth: 16.
XShmQueryVersion: 1.1.
-[ xiTK version 0.10.5 ]-
-[ xiTK will use XShm ]-
-[ WM type: (EWMH) KWIN {KWin} ]-
Display is not using Xinerama.
deinterlace: Greedy disabled: required CPU accelleration features unavailable.
deinterlace: Greedy2Frame disabled: required CPU accelleration features unavailable.
deinterlace: Vertical disabled: required CPU accelleration features unavailable.
main: probing <aadxr3> video output plugin
main: probing <dxr3> video output plugin
dxr3_scr: Failed to open control device /dev/em8300-0 (No such file or directory)
main: probing <xv> video output plugin
main: probing <SyncFB> video output plugin
video_out_syncfb: aborting. (unable to open syncfb device "/dev/syncfb")
main: probing <xshm> video output plugin
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
video_out_xshm: tried to set unsupported property 2
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc2 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
knoppix@nickshp:~$

Any ideas?

[Cuddles]

YIKES!

I've run Xine, and I never saw those messages

So, here goes, Ms. Trouble-Shooter...

First Question: Did your system ever run another OS (operating System), and if so, was it Windows, and if so, did your system ever play DVD's in that Operating System???

Second Question: What video card do you have? ( manufacturer, model, memory, and does it have "acceleration" - either 3D or video support? )

Third Question: (final one) -=- Does the video card show up in Info Center ( KMenu ---> System ---> Info Center ) under the video card, or is it using a "generic" video card configuration?

From the output of Xine, it appears that it can't find acceleration for playing a DVD, on your video card - i.e. it may not be able to handle the "needed" Frames Per Second that is required for proper displaying of the video. It also appears that it is having a heck of a time even finding the video it needs for this output... Another thought is, do you have DMA enabled on your DVD device????

Start up a ROOT Konsole - either click on the little monitor with a shell in front of it, the icon runs along the bottom of your screen (desktop) - and do the following:

cuddles@Morpheus:~$ su
root@Morpheus:/home/cuddles# hdparm -d /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
root@Morpheus:/home/cuddles#

You need to determine what your DVD device is as a /dev/hdX designation... You can do a dmesg at the root prompt screen above, look near the top, here is what mine would look like:

root@Morpheus:/home/cuddles# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.6 (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #2 SMP Fri May 14 20:38:30 CEST 2004
...
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: HDS722540VLAT20, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SONY DVD-ROM DDU1611, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: SAMSUNG SP0802N, ATA DISK drive
hdd: OPTORITECD-RW CW5201, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
...

Note that my DVD is on hdb which is /dev/hdb...

my hdparm command would look like this:

root@Morpheus:/home/cuddles# hdparm -d /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
root@Morpheus:/home/cuddles#

If your DVD device is NOT using DMA, you enable it by doing the following:

root@Morpheus:/home/cuddles# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb

and disable it by doing the following:

root@Morpheus:/home/cuddles# hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb

Note that that is a ZERO after the -d not a letter O - its a "binary" thing, ZERO equals off, ONE equals on...

When your done using root, just type exit to exit login of root, and another exit will close your Konsole window (screen)

Hope this helps,
Ms. Cuddles

[mzilikazi]

Try changing your default depth to 24 in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

[baldyeti]

libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading

What's the output of "ls -al /dev/dvd" ?
Also, are you booting a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?

[turbine]

Wow, this is great help. Cuddles, you have the most questions so I'll get to yours last.

Baldyeti, here is the ls output:

knoppix@nickshp:~$ ls -al /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 10 10:13 /dev/dvd -> /dev/cdrom
knoppix@nickshp:~$

I'm running the 2.4 kernel

[baldyeti]

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 10 10:13 /dev/dvd -> /dev/cdrom

Ah we need to follow the chain then, with either "ls -al /dev/cdrom" or "ls -alL /dev/dvd"

[turbine]

Now, Cuddles I'll answer your questions in separate posts so that I can get some responses to you while I'm looking up others.

Yes I also run win98 and I do play dvd's successfully.

Now xine runs fine on my machine in that I can play mpegs, avi's, wmv's, etc.

The info center doesn't show a video card so it must be using generic.

I'm not up on video cards since I never fooled with the beasts but my documentation seems to say:
"ATI 3D RAGE PRO".

/dev/hdc:
using_dma = 0 (off)
root@nickshp:/home/knoppix#

[turbine]

Cuddles:

my dmesg command output contains this dvd info:

hdc: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive