Hey all, I want to be able to play DVD's on suse 9.1 but Xine and Kaffeine comes up and says that it can't because of copyright violations or something like that.
I read that I can get a DVD player for it but not sure where, or which one. Hopefully someone can point me to one in an RPM format?
Thanks for any replies,
RANDON

i am searching for same thing

Hi randon!

It also enrages me that distributions as SuSE ships with media player which plays nothing... it's better to leave it without any media player then with one without codecs or ability to play anything for that matter...

If I was you, I'd remove kaffeine and Xine and install a real media player. Mplayer is by far the best thing you can use:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

However, the "menu" used in nearly all DVD's around won't work as it should. But that's just a little issue that you can pass by choosing the track number (usually 1) where the movie is. This program _will_ compile very easily in SuSE. If you want a graphical Interface, you will need to work a little bit more solving dependencies but it really is no big deal.

You can also install mplayer with YaST:

However, if you still want a DVD player which supports menus and stuff, Ogle is your best bet:

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/

I'd still stick with mplayer though. I've even got mplayer working in my Xbox. It kicks some serious ***...

Here is some links about Mplayer that you might want to read. Installing from source:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...16#post1226216

Installing with YaST:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...09#post1102609

Configuring YaST to always download things from the net instead of swapping disks all the time:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...89#post1087289

Good luck!

my friend whioch one is the best for playing a pirate dvd s ?

This should set you up... The DVD libraries are in the Cambuca link, below.

GETTING MOVIE CODECS AND QUICKTIME TO WORK:
In SuSE, uninstall Xine-UI, Libxine, Kaffeine and anything else to do with Xine:

This link for an overview:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...l=demux+plugin

In order to get rid of jumpy DVD, from root I type:
hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd
or
Yast -> Hardware -> IDE DMA > select: UltraDMA/33 (this is what worked for me on reboot)

Downloaded these RPMs and follow instructions.
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
To start, right-click on file and Open With Xine.

If quicktime trailers don't work. Install mplayer. If you do, make sure you first install all wmv codecs to file:/usr/local/lib/codecs (Kaffeine, I think) AND file:/usr/lib/win32 (Xine/Mplayer). This will allow mplayer to compile the codecs as it compiles. Otherwise, they won't work.

MPlayer tarbaills are here:
You need the ui, fonts and skins if you want the actual player. The main tarball only runs from console.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

MPlayerplug-in RPMs are here:
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/

Any will do, but stick with mplayer . MPLayer can play nearly everything around: mp3, wma, avi, mpeg, VCD, SVCD, DVD... etc . Rory in Toronto made a great post, you might want to look at it

Regards!

Well I downloaded the mplayer rpm but it's giving me errors that I need the , win32 codec which I have the rpm for and already installed. I don't know if you have to do anything special for that? It is also telling me that I need "libmp3lame.so.0" and "libtheora.so.0". I'm not sure if those are zeros at the end or letter o's. Can anybody point me the way to where I can get these?
Anyway thanks for the help!!
RANDON

Did you follow all the steps at this link? If you did, you should be in good shape.

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

I recommed OGLE (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/). Those guys also have rpms which I was able to install flawlessly on both SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 Pro. They also have all the necessary packages on their website. For a GUI go to OKLE (http://okle.sourceforge.net/) - they also link to rpms that worked fine for me on aforemontioned SuSE distros.

Dependacy hell!!
I thought this wasn't supposed to happen in an RPM distro....
Well I downloaded everything there that they said to download but now it won't install because I'm missing:

liba52.So.0
libXv.So.1

This is for Ogle to work...

Anybody know where I can get these?
Thanks,
RANDON

Dependency hell is most likely the _only_ thing that you will face with a rpm based distribution unless you use something as yast, urpmi, apt... RPM's are still the very worst thing I've yet seem in Linux. I'd highly recommend compiling mplayer from source. It's really easy and good practicing. Sooner or later you will need to compile anyway, so why not starting with a great application which compiled on everything I've used until today...

Will that solve the dependancy problem though or will I still need those dependicies? I don't mind compiling, I guess I need the practice anyway
Thanks!
RANDON

Ok I suggest only using Xine as it runs better than MPlayer and has better codec support. Here is the best resource IMO for Xine packages and instructions for playing DVDs under Linux. Simply do a search for xine under YAST and uninstall all the packages. Then download the packages from that website and install via YAST.

@ randon

yes, you should not get dependencies problems. Make sure to first install gcc, g++ and make packages with YasT. If you are going with gui support, you will need to install a few other packages as well, but that's pretty simple. Whatever is missing, you install with YaST. Follow the mplayer documentation, it's good and you can't go wrong following the steps in there...

@ KohlyKohl

Could you please tell me where you saw that Xine has more codecs support then mplayer? Because mplayer, xine and even avifile can use the same codecs... Could also please define better? Because if it's performance, it's not, mplayer is faster then Xine and even been ported to more system due it's speed, including Xbox port. If it's on the gui that you were talking about, I'd have to agree, since mplayer gui is horrible. Mplayer also does not support DVD's menu, but we all know that it's much faster using the command line anyway

Yes,, Random, you never told us how the Xine install attempt went. If you look back at my email and grab that link, you'll find that page should give you:
all major codecs
dvd playback
xine
xine plug-in for browser playback.

Xine is constantly updated and as long as you uninstall all the SuSE Xine/Kaffeine/Totem stuff first, as noted above, you should be fine.