[ltp] DVD playback on T21?

[Tod Harter]

I installed xine 0.9.5 from source code on my A20p and it works perfectly. 
I'm using the "Captain CSS" CSS decoder plugin (which you have to get 
seperately). All I did was download the tarballs and compiled with

./configure PREFIX=/usr
First you compile the xine-lib tarball, then the xine-ui tarball, then the 
css decoder one. 

I've found that xine works pretty well on my system. It doesn't seem to work 
well with MS's proprietary wmv format very well, and some AVIs will flake it 
out as well, and there is no support for Sorenson codec for Quicktime (but 
theoretically you can have it use the windows DLL's for that, I haven't 
bothered to try). 

You might also try Xmovie and Ogle, both of which I believe can in theory be 
set up to decode DvD video streams.  I have used XMovie to play an mpeg or 
two, and it seemed to work well. Its a bit smaller than xine, which is nice.

It could be that you installed from RPMs, which may or may not work. For 
bleeding edge stuff like this I tend to avoid RPMs. They are nice, but not 
always so good.

I assume you are using a new(ish) version of XFree. I know the xine people 
say you should have an XFree version that supports the Xv extension, and 
there are some other extensions they like to have, but in theory things 
should fall back and work even without those. I'm on Mdk 8.1 with XFree 4.1.0.

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 12:53, you wrote:
> I've just tried a couple of unsuccessful experiments with getting DVD
> playback working on a T21 (PIII/850, S3 Savage @ 1400x1050x24).  The
> system is a RH7.2 with Ximian updates.
>
> Both xine and ogre  (both latest versions) give me a window filled with
> green (almost solid - but with horizontal striping).  If I'm lucky I get
> the sound track.
>
> Anyone else got DVD playback working on a similar system and wish to
> share their magic.
>
> 	Nigel.
>
>
>
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