[mythtv-users] MythDVD woes WAF failing....

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 19 November 2004 12:52, mark wrote:
> Should be simple to fix, but I have not found much in the archives.
> Running:
> 2.4 Celeron, Myth .16 FC2 ( install via Jerrod's guide ) KDE.
>
> Just installed a DVD ROM as I want to be able to play/rip DVD's.
>
> So, device is appearing as /dev/cdrom (changed mythsetup to point to
> /dev/cdrom instead of /dev/dvd) in OS.
>
> Problems now. ( solutiions welcomed as well pls )
> 1) when I pop in a DVD, it is automounted and a disk browing window
> pops up from KDE
>      - should I disable automount?  What is the best way to do this?

$ rm -f ~/.kde/Autostart/Autorun.desktop

> 2) I see that mplayer is being used by default to play dvd's.  Does it
> work best?

mplayer doesn't support DVD menus. Many folks favor xine or ogle for that 
reason alone. I rarely watch a DVD (and still have a standalone player), so I 
haven't spent much time on it. There's a fair amount of info in the list 
archives about using either xine or ogle though. (I'm planning to take some 
of that info on xine and put it on my site, since this is a frequent 
request).

> In the error log, it complains of codecs too.  Is there a 
> place to get these for mplayer?  atrpms? apt-get?

ATrpms has some codecs, FreshRPMs has some codecs, not sure where else... But 
yeah, they're apt-get'able.

> 3) When I try to play a dvd in optical disk area, it briefly flashes
> black screen and returns to the myth menu.   Here are the log entries
> from mythfrontend: ( relevant ones )
>
> Can't open '/home/mythtv/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or
> directory
> Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
> Can't open input config file /home/mythtv/.mplayer/input.conf: No such
> file or directory
> Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
> directory
> Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
> Can't init input joystick
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 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 0x000001b9
> libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
> libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x0000297c
> libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB
> (0x0000297c)!!
> libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
> libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x000029a3
> libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
> libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x00002a5e
> libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
> libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x00011b5c
> libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
> libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x00011c17
> libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
> libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x00011fe1
> libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
> libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x0004854b
> libdvdread: Found 15 VTS's
> libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
> Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
> Using MMX optimized resampler
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.

Odd. Not sure what's up there... Does that happen with all DVDs? Could just be 
one that is problematic for libdvdcss to crack for some reason...

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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