Could anyone reccomend a good dvd player for mandrake 9.1?

I am also looking for a program that can rip dvds to divx, and another to rip mp3s from cd.

I am slowly trying to phase windows from my machine, so the sooner I can do these things the better

AHMA

playing - http://mplayerhq.hu
ripping - http://acidrip.sf.net (not that i'm biased of course)
mp3 rip - http://nostatic.org/grip

I use ogle for playing dvd's

I have put all the rpm's for Mandrake 9.1 on my site <<here>>

Enjoy.

You can also use mplayer or xine - both work well with mandrake 9.1.

As with all things linux, it is down to personal choice, try them all, see which one you like.

Chris.

Hello,

I installed your rpm package. The player comes up. When I try to play it errors out complaining about audio device. I have alsa installed and it works fine with xmms and even xine. I have attached the console output below.

Any suggestions please.

Thanks,
Senthil


[root@Einstein ogle]# ogle -u gui
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000120
libdvdread: Elapsed time 2
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000006c7
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x0000568d
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 2
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_vs]: B-frame before forward ref frame
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_vs]: B-frame before forward ref frame
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
ERROR[ogle_audio]: Opening alsa pcm device 'default': No such file or directory
FATAL[ogle_audio]: failed opening the alsa audio driver at default
No accelerated colorspace coversion found


[root@Einstein ogle]#

looks like you've not set any details in the sound preferences. personally i'd still suggest a decent player like mplayer....

You do need to install all 5 packages (in the correct order).

ogle-0.9.1-ogle1alsa.i586.rpm deals with alsa sound.

If this does not work, try the ogle website << here >>, they may have more ideas.

OR use mplayer or xine (both really good dvd players).

WHy don't you try installing mplayer via CVS. Here is a link on how to do that: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/mencoder.php I tried mplayer rpm packages before and I couldn't get mencoder working. Make sure you have lame installed also so you can do 3-pass dvd encoding.

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies. I actually tried xine and mplayer before trying ogle. I have used xine before on RH 8 and everything was fine. Now I have changed to Mandrake 9.1 and xine is not smooth. Not sure what setting is wrong.

Then tried mplayer. With this, the player gui closes after playing the first 2 secs or so of the DVD. I tried other options listed in the output but nothing worked. The mplayer console error output is as follows (hence tried ogle)-

[root@Einstein root]# mplayer -vo x11 /dev/dvd
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 52 binds

Playing /dev/dvd
Cache fill: 18.07% (1515520 bytes) MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.97 fps 7000.0 kbps (875.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 384.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 48000->192000 (384.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1400x1050 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Disabling DPMS
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12
Using MMX2 for colorspace transform
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 32-bit special converter
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Starting playback...
A: 5.6 V: 4.9 A-V: 0.728 ct: 0.470 142/142 9% 71% 1.6% 50 0 17%

************************************************
**** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
- Try -ao sdl or use ALSA 0.5 or the OSS emulation of ALSA 0.9.
- Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
- Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
- Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try -hardframedrop.
- Broken file
- Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
- Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
- Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/video.html and DOCS/sound.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/bugreports.html.

A: 11.2 V: 11.2 A-V: 0.049 ct: 1.101 330/330 10% 71% 1.3% 112 0 0%
Successfully enabled DPMS

Exiting... (End of file)
[root@Einstein root]#



Thanks,
Senthil

Oops sorry, I guess I am posting my problems on a different thread. Moderator, if possible can you please move the relevant postings of my problem to a new thread with say "dvd player issues" as heading?

Thanks,
Senthil