Linux DVD

[pac1085]

I finally got a dvd-rom drive, and want to play them under Linux. I hear xine can do it, but I've been messing around with it all day and I cant get it to work...I've been reading around xine.sf.net and dvd.sf.net but cant find anything helpful. Can anyone whos got it workin point me in the right direction? thanks.

 

[jcmkk]

You should try MPlayer. It's my favorite linux media player.

 

[PG]

What distro do you have?

I have Xine running just fine under Mandrake 8.2, but I was able to find some RPM's that were easy to install and did the trick.

 

[pac1085]

I'm running slackware 8.1...i downloaded a bunch of stuff ( libdvdcss, libdvdread, libdvdnav, xine-dvdnav ) but I still cant get it to work. I tried ogle too but it dont work there either. I'll try mplayer

 

[pac1085]

I got MPlayer working, is there any way to use 5.1 surround with it? I'm using an audigy running the drivers from emu10k1.sf.net.

 

[pac1085]

Got mplayer to work with all speakers, via the -channels 6 option. Also got xine working with menus, 5.1 and all. I had to use older versions of libdvdcss (0.0.3 i think it was) and lib dvdread(0.90 i believe). I guess using the latest versions of everything isnt always the way to go. It plays so much nicer than it does in win xp with powerdvd. I can multitask without the dvd skipping, and dont get the audio popping like I do in XP. Now I just need to figure out if theres any way to have dts playback under linux... Another side effect of using the older versions of those libraries is that dvd::rip works flawlessly now too. (it didnt used to work on encrypted dvds)