DVD playback problems with use variables [solved]

aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

When trying to run a DVD wint xine I got the following:

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:05 am Post subject:

Have you tried many more dvds and all plays fine?

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

It looks like there's a mismatch between the region you DVD drive is set to and the region the disc is set to. You can change the region of the drive, but I believe you're only allowed to do it four times, and you need to use a special program to do it. I really don't know how to find out which region the disc is set to. Does the drive play other DVDs correctly?
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aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

OK, no I haven't tried any other DVD's. It's a new player I just installed a few days ago. I am not sure I have all the right stuff installed -- but I did emerge win32 codecs as well as xine. I can't get xine to work, or kmplayer, or mplayer. Since I ran xine from a shell prompt I could at least get error messages.

Here's what I got when I tried Fellowship of the ring:

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:27 am Post subject:

I had similar issues some time ago and fixed it removing scsi emulation from the kernel, and compiling it as a module, since I need it for a usb hd I own. The output from libdvdcss was similar, so I would check that, just in case.

aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

Sigh still not the solution -- don't have SCSI emulation on.

Let me ask this (bear with me): what would I need to emerge (not counting xine or mplayer of course) to get DVD movies to play? Maybe I missed something.

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:40 am Post subject:

You dont need any extra stuff to decode dvds and play them. Mplayer and xine uses libdvdcss to retrieve the keys and decode the vob files, but you output shows that it is up and running, so thats not the issue.

You should try any other dvd to see if it is a wrong disk or a defective drive.

aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

the above was an attempt at another disk (error#2)

I hate to say it, but I am about to try windows to test if it is a defective drive; this is the first test I have made with it since I installed it.

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:49 am Post subject:

You could also try mplayer, to see if that makes something.

aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

Nope, nothing on mplayer. Not even an error message (I am running it through kde is why I guess). Currently windows boot and it plays the DVD, so I guess its a configuration problem on my end.

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:07 am Post subject:

Can you post out of 'mplayer dvd://1' ??

aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

Here's a lot of intersting stuff ....

( sorry for the delay, I started playing half life 2 while in windows...he.he...)

aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

And before you ask, /etc/make.conf (yes I did recompile a while ago with the current use settings)

MrBrightside · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Georgia

I think you have all missed something important. If it is a brand new drive, the region has never been set. That is most likely the problem. You need to set the region on the DVD player before it will play any DVDs. I have no idea how to do this in Linux. I have done it in windows and remember it being really easy, so just boot into windows, set the region, and everything should be fine.

aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

Google provided the answer: regionset, which was in portage. It turns out the DVD is set in region 1 (the correct one) already.

Plus it works in windows.

I am missing something SOMEWHERE...and I can't find a helpful guide, really, anywhere...

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:47 am Post subject:

I really dont think that this is a region setting issue.

As far as I know xine and mplayer engines do not care at all about that, so this is not a thing to look donw on it in any case. Of course if Im wrong feel free to correct me. I would look into the kernel settings or libdvdcss, since the program is not the issue (mplayer fails as well as xine do). If i think of anything more ill let you know.

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

Why are so many of your USE flags in caps? The only one that should be in caps is X. That's probably part of the problem. I don't know about mplayer, but xine-lib won't build with DVD support given your current USE flags.

Fix them then run

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject:

aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

So weird...not sure why some where in caps, I can't recall now -- I seem to think I did that because my previous gentoo install had them all in caps...hate to admit it never even dreamed it was case sensitive...I have made them all lower case (hopefully that won't break something else...) and am recompiling...this will take a while, will let you guys know how it goes.

yuckymucky · n00b Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 17

I had that exact same problem in Xine and Mplayer. I had recently done a emerge -uD world and that updated my ALSA-Lib package which caused same break in all my movie players.

Just make sure that you have alsa-lib 1.0.7 and see if that works.

aschueler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 119

The fix was changing from all caps. Wish I could begin to explain what got into my head to put all the USE variables that way....obviously a warp somewhere in there.

Thanks, everyone, for your patience and help with dealing this. Now, next project is getting 5.1 sound to work...but let me work on that for a bit, no hints yet please

i92guboj · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:35 am Post subject:

glad! Maybe shoudl you change the title to something like "Xine/DVD problem - USE flags" and mark as solved, so in case someone has a similar problem can benefit from this info.