<br clear="all">Hi, Anne<br><br>lets go by parts. As I said before, I do not know why xine is not<br>reading your dvds. <br><br>1) Xine should be statically linked against ffmpeg,<br>so it will not be affected by the update. xine-lib comes from extras.
<br>You only need the gui (xine) and the non free part:<br>xine-lib-moles from freshrpms (equivalent to xine-lib-extras-nonfree<br>from livna).<br><br>2) On the other hand, the update will fix libavcodec, needed by mplayer.
<br>Therefore, you have three programs to try: xine, mplayer and vlc. All of<br>them use libdvdcss, that you have to install.<br><br>3) mjpegtools 1.9.0 has a bug. It does not recognize -p S<br><pre><font size="4">The command
</font><br><br>'lavplay -p S filename.avi'<br><br><font size="4">gives:</font> <span style="font-family: mon;">Unknown playback mode: 'S'</span><br></pre>Version 1.9.1 from cvs (ATrpms) fixes this, and works
<br>with libquicktime 0.9.8.<br><br><a href="http://dl.atrpms.net/all/mjpegtools-devel-1.9.1-14_cvs20061009.fc6.at.i386.rpm">http://dl.atrpms.net/all/mjpegtools-devel-1.9.1-14_cvs20061009.fc6.at.i386.rpm</a><br><br>I suppose you were using mjpegtools
1.8. <br><br>3) dvdrip is based on transcode, and uses mjpegtools for SVCD encoding. <br>I have used it many times for converting a dvd to avi (compressing with xvid, in general). <br>It is very simple to use, but it has to be able to rip the dvd first. Otherwise, nothing else
<br>can be done.<br><br>It is transcode that forces the upgrade of mjpegtools to 1.9.<br>And finally, mythtv (a very popular PVR) requires transcode.<br><br>The main problem is that everything is connected, and must match.
<br><br><br>/Paulo Roma<br><br><br><br><br>