Hello All,
I tried out suse 10.1 on my system. Installation was smooth and the variety of softwares was great. The video and sound was properly detected and network is working properly too. There are some issues though that have taken a full day of mine but no result still. This time I did not use the shortcut method of installing VLC for playing vcds.
The win32 dll rpm was installed and xine 1.1.1 is already in my system. Still I am getting errors while opening vcds in kaffeine. The xine website shows no extra lib file to be installed and the Yast auto updater was one big PIA that only drained out my limitted triband Mbs. The packman site link taken from google does not open.
There is also a minor issue about mounting CDs. There is no entry for cd drives in the fstab but the system shows up the cd in 'My Computer' of suse and creates a virtual mount point in the /media folder of the same name as the cd title. Even then the mount command does not show any optical drives. I am able to see files and folders in the cds.
Are these 2 issues connected? Though I must add that a avseq01.dat file in my hdd still did not play in kaffeine.
In the case of the cd drive if I select 'Open VCD' in the kaff. options, it throws an error 'could not locate drive' and asks for the path. When I give the path /dev/hdb, it closes and gives a bug report type error. The same directly happens if I select the .dat file directly on the hdd.
Normally what do you guys do with xine just after a fresh OS installation? Can you give the steps? I even successfully installed xine-lib-1.1.1 from source using make install, only to realise that it was already installed as an rpm. So using make uninstall, it was removed. However before it was removed, I could play a vcd once but could not repeat the process.
Any help on this will be appreciated.
Regards,
Rony.
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On Tuesday 04 July 2006 21:29, Rony wrote: *snip*
In the case of the cd drive if I select 'Open VCD' in the kaff. options, it throws an error 'could not locate drive' and asks for the path. When I give the path /dev/hdb, it closes and gives a bug report type error. The same directly happens if I select the .dat file directly on the hdd.
Normally what do you guys do with xine just after a fresh OS installation? Can you give the steps? I even successfully installed xine-lib-1.1.1 from source using make install, only to realise that it was already installed as an rpm. So using make uninstall, it was removed. However before it was removed, I could play a vcd once but could not repeat the process.
I'm using Xine on FC5 with Xine UI. To play VCDs, all I need to do is pop in the VCD in my cdrom drive and then click the "VCD" button on the interface. Remember to configure the VCD path as the device /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdX. Can you try running xine in debug mode? It will give you more info on whats going wrong...
Have you tried Totem. It is by far the best I have used. Ofcourse, VLC is also cool. To get multimedia working, install the package called totem-xine. To get w32 codecs, download them from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html and dump the contents into /usr/lib/win32/ directory. You might have to create the directory. It worked for me on Ubuntu. Hope it works for you too, though I don't see a reason why not. It plays almost everything except Real media and wmv 9.
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 22:50, Sanket Medhi wrote:
Have you tried Totem. It is by far the best I have used. Ofcourse, VLC is also cool. To get multimedia working, install the package called totem-xine. To get w32 codecs, download them from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html and dump the contents into /usr/lib/win32/ directory. You might have to create the directory. It worked for me on Ubuntu. Hope it works for you too, though I don't see a reason why not. It plays almost everything except Real media and wmv 9.
There is a way to play WMV9 in VLC but for that there is a binary only module which works as a plugin with only a certain version of VLC. I have it installed on my FC2 machine. I've heard that its ...ahem... no-so-legal. Anybody know a better way to play WMV9 in Linux?
Can you please point to a resource or explain how WMV9 can be made to work? Yes, it is illegal, but only if you don't own a copy of M$.
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 11:29, Sanket Medhi wrote:
Can you please point to a resource or explain how WMV9 can be made to work? Yes, it is illegal, but only if you don't own a copy of M$.
I would, if I had access to my desktop. You see, ssh is disabled and currently the keyboard isn't working and more importantly I cannot get out of bed. Doctors orders :(
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:21:25PM +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I'm using Xine on FC5 with Xine UI. To play VCDs, all I need to do is pop in the VCD in my cdrom drive and then click the "VCD" button on the interface. Remember to configure the VCD path as the device /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdX. Can you try running xine in debug mode? It will give you more info on whats going wrong...
In my xine in suse 10.1, there is no VCD button, only dvb and dvd. I feel its a scaled down version. When I was compiling the xine-lib from the tar file, it did have entries for vcds. But the problem is that I cannot remove the installed rpm as it gives dependency errors of other players. Totem too does not work.
In my FC5 there is no xine as the rpm -q does not show any xine entry. The command 'xine' too does not work indicating there's no xine installed. However there is totem as well as noatun. They are supposed to be xine guis. Totem can list my vcd in its file menu but it cannot run it as it gives an error of 'cannot find path'. (in both oses)
I have observed that the new linux OSes don't have entries for cd drives in fstab. Are the new kernels using some virtual method of mounting cds? They don't show up in the mount command either.
Could you give an exact list of steps you took to load FC5 and get xine working? If anyone else can give the same steps for Suse 10.1 then that would be great.
Regards,
Rony.
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On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:05, Rony wrote: *snip*
Could you give an exact list of steps you took to load FC5 and get xine working? If anyone else can give the same steps for Suse 10.1 then that would be great.
Look i wont spoonfeed you the exact commands but the steps are pretty simple. Add the livna, freshrpms repo in the yum configuration. Then all you need to do is:
yum install xine
Thats it. It will install the essential libraries and the default GUI. Also remember that by default it wont install the win32 dlls. You will need to do it manually.
Cheers!
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:05, Rony wrote:
Could you give an exact list of steps you took to load FC5 and get xine working? If anyone else can give the same steps for Suse 10.1 then that would be great.
I had full multimedia enabled on my system (OpenSuse10.1) within ~30min.. Read the Jem Report, it gives u step by step instructions
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/
hi, I just upgraded to 10.1 i found this essential for 10.0 and for 10.1
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/
just change all refrences to '10.0' to '10.1' evry thihng worked fine ... i dont use vlc so cant help u on that ... but mplayer does pretty well.
Steven
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