My experiences with YDL 3.0

[Étienne Beaulé]

> You couldn't get ogle to work? Do you have more information about what 
> the
> problem could be?

When I start Ogle, this is what I get:
$ ogle /dev/dvd
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 0x00000155
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00000503
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00000574
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x00000588
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x000014b5
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x0000225e
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x000022cb
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x000076cf
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x00007dfb
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB at 0x000096a7
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x0001dd77
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB at 0x001bd0fd
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB at 0x001bd180
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_0.VOB at 0x0036ccb0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB at 0x0037b37b
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 9 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1

And then it quits (nothing happens).

I got VLC, xine and mplayer to work reasonably well but they are all
somewhat slow (and audio gets out of sync after some time). What annoys
me a bit is that they all take 80% or more of CPU while DVD Player under
Mac OS X takes about 50% on the same machine.

All this may very well be caused by a bad configuration on my part... I
am not sure I know which options work best on my Pismo (I'm certainly
open to suggestions).


> As if you're using my packages, I'd be interested in
> knowing if it could be a packaging bug, since I don't have a DVD 
> player on
> my Mac to actually test it.

Your packages seems to be OK and, BTW, I really must thank you for
making these.

> Otherwise, did you check that you have DMA enabled on your combo 
> drive?

I did after I looked on your web site... Not sure it changed anything
though.

Since last email, I tried some additional stuff:
1. CD Burning (worked great)
2. Accessing hfs/hfs+ partitions (nothing new here - still need to use
the annoying hpmount, hpcopy, hpls, hpcd commands)

Works very good so far... I know I said it before but I will say it
again: I am very impressed (tm).

Étienne