<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Xine runs just fine with Myth, dvd menus
and all. Of the 3 that I tried (mplayer, xine, and ogle), xine seems to
be the best choice for dvd playing. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mplayer doesn't support dvd menus, from
what I can tell.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ogle is very simple to use, and mostly
works, but I found that I couldn't always get the commands to do what they
were supposed to do. Ogle also doesn't have native lirc support. Life can
get interesting if you're trying to run multiple apps with irxevent.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">To get xine running, install xine and
xine-ui from rpms (apt-get install xine xine-ui). </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Run myth, and go to the settings for
dvd playback. Select xine.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Play a dvd. Note that xine uses the
keys on the *keypad* for navigating the menus. This had me confused for
awhile.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Press g to bring up the xine settings
menu. Set things the way you want them.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Press q to quit zine.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Once you've verified that xine works,
get it working with lirc. From the command line, do this:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">$ xine --keymap=lirc > lircrc-test</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This produces a lircrc file that has
everything filled out except the remote control buttons. Strip out the
many things that you don't need, and map the rest to your remote buttons.
Copy the contents of this file into the .lircrc file in your home directory.
Note that this is a different file than the .mythtv/lircrc that is used
for myth's native lirc support. It's okay to have both files.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> Now that I have my MythTV box running,
I started </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> playing around with the different
options. Realized </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> that MythDVD doesn't support DVD
menues. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> After doing a search on the list,
it appears my </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> options are either xine or ogle.
</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> From what I've read, xine is something
of a hack to </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> work Myth and DVD menus, which
leaves ogle. One of the </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> posts that I read is that while
ogle supports menus, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> the poster wasn't sure if it supported
some DVD </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> playback options such as FF or
skip. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> Anyhow, has anyone gotten ogle
to work to their </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> satisfaction? If so, could you
please post </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> instructions on how you got it
running on your box. I </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> imagine it's a matter of pulling
the install down and </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> modifying the player settings from
mplayer to ogle. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> I'm sure there is LOTs of detail
that I have missed or </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">> would have missed if I performed
this install solo. </font>
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