DVD Playing [was: pismo Qs/short rant]

[Greg Hamilton]

I went hunting for xinedvdnav, which lead to libdvdnav which wasn't 
installed. I've yumed it. Still no 'nav' button, though as you say I 
shouldn't expect one. Don't have a DVD handy to test it but I'm 
expecting positive results.

I don't have any old copies of Xine installed. I've been trying to 
avoid building things from source where I can. Just using yum and 
apt-get for package management. This makes finding out what's installed 
and removing things much easier. And of course it means I know exactly 
which version of Xine I have installed and I can't have two versions 
simultaneously installed. Theoretically at least. Depends how well that 
package maintainers do their stuff I suppose.

Greg

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 11:00  AM, Bill Fink wrote:

> On Tue Jul 22 2003, Patrick Smith wrote:
>
>> Greg Hamilton wrote:
>>> I used yum to install Xine and I believe it picked up all the
>>> dependencies. libdvdcss is definitely installed. DVDs play correctly 
>>> up
>>> to the normal menu screen. However, I'm not having any luck selecting
>>> the 'Play Movie' or equivalent function on any of the admittedly very
>>> few discs I've tried so far.
>>
>> In the list of buttons for media types, do you have a NAV buttion as
>> well as a DVD button?
>>
>> If so, try playing the movie with NAV instead of DVD.
>>
>> If not, try installing xinedvdnav.
>
> That's ancient history.  With any moderately recent xine, libdvdnav is
> included with xine-lib, and there is no separate NAV button.  Assuming
> you have libdvdcss, all you should need to do is press the DVD button
> and follow the menus.  One thing to check is to make sure you don't
> have any older versions of xine laying around on your system.  If you
> do, make sure to remove all traces of them.
>
> 						-Bill
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