1:40 p.m.
I've not come across this problem before. Most of my DVDs play
correctly. Is
this an additional drm layer or similar?
I do not know why you are having problems with xine.
But you have to fix libavcodec, which is part of ffmpeg.
ffmpeg contains all of the codecs: DivX3,4,5, xvid, aac, a52, etc...
In windows, it is known by ffdshow. It is the heart of mplayer.
ffmpeg can be downloaded from freshrpms (FC6):
http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=801
or, if you are not using FC6, then I suggest you to get ffmpeg from ATrpms:
http://atrpms.net/name/ffmpeg/
If you want just to play dvds, the best program is vlc, also available
in freshrpms.
It has a better control of dvd menus.
http://www.videolan.org/
/Paulo Roma.
1:59 p.m.
New subject: DVD problem
On Monday 01 January 2007 19:40, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> I've not come across this problem before. Most of my DVDs
play
> correctly. Is this an additional drm layer or similar?
I do not know why you are having problems with xine.
But you have to fix libavcodec, which is part of ffmpeg.
ffmpeg contains all of the codecs: DivX3,4,5, xvid, aac, a52, etc...
In windows, it is known by ffdshow. It is the heart of mplayer.
ffmpeg can be downloaded from freshrpms (FC6):
http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=801
or, if you are not using FC6, then I suggest you to get ffmpeg from ATrpms:
http://atrpms.net/name/ffmpeg/
If you want just to play dvds, the best program is vlc, also available
in freshrpms.
It has a better control of dvd menus.
http://www.videolan.org/
/Paulo Roma.
Thanks for the info, Paulo. I'm not very au fait with codecs, which is why I
asked. It's not really 'my thing', but it is nice, sometimes to be able to
play a disk. Actually, to be really honest, it just peeves me that someone
can try to stop me viewing something that I've legally bought :-) It's a bit
like saying that I can buy a book, but I can't read it on the train, in bed
or in the bath :-)
Anne
6:36 a.m.
New subject: DVD problem
On Monday 01 January 2007 19:40, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> I've not come across this problem before. Most of my DVDs
play
> correctly. Is this an additional drm layer or similar?
I do not know why you are having problems with xine.
But you have to fix libavcodec, which is part of ffmpeg.
ffmpeg contains all of the codecs: DivX3,4,5, xvid, aac, a52, etc...
In windows, it is known by ffdshow. It is the heart of mplayer.
ffmpeg can be downloaded from freshrpms (FC6):
http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=801
or, if you are not using FC6, then I suggest you to get ffmpeg from ATrpms:
http://atrpms.net/name/ffmpeg/
If you want just to play dvds, the best program is vlc, also available
in freshrpms.
It has a better control of dvd menus.
http://www.videolan.org/
Paulo, I set out to do this, this morning. I have ffmpeg from livna
installed, so I tried to remove it in order to install the freshrpms version.
However, it said that I would also remove many programs that I need. I know
that if necessary I could make a list then reinstall them, but should I force
a remove without dependencies? If so, what is the command? I can't find it
in the man page. Is it easier to use rpm?
Sorry to be a nuisance.
Anne
6:52 a.m.
New subject: DVD problem
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 12:36, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 01 January 2007 19:40, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > I've not come across this problem before. Most of my DVDs play
> > correctly. Is this an additional drm layer or similar?
>
> I do not know why you are having problems with xine.
>
> But you have to fix libavcodec, which is part of ffmpeg.
>
> ffmpeg contains all of the codecs: DivX3,4,5, xvid, aac, a52, etc...
> In windows, it is known by ffdshow. It is the heart of mplayer.
> ffmpeg can be downloaded from freshrpms (FC6):
>
> http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=801
>
> or, if you are not using FC6, then I suggest you to get ffmpeg from
> ATrpms:
>
> http://atrpms.net/name/ffmpeg/
>
> If you want just to play dvds, the best program is vlc, also available
> in freshrpms.
> It has a better control of dvd menus.
>
> http://www.videolan.org/
Paulo, I set out to do this, this morning. I have ffmpeg from livna
installed, so I tried to remove it in order to install the freshrpms
version. However, it said that I would also remove many programs that I
need. I know that if necessary I could make a list then reinstall them,
but should I force a remove without dependencies? If so, what is the
command? I can't find it in the man page. Is it easier to use rpm?
Sorry to be a nuisance.
Ignore that :-) On examination of the list it is clear that most are livna
packages anyway, so I'll let them go and install afresh from freshrpms.
One thing makes me curious, though. Amongst the listed dependency removals is
mjpegtools. As far as I know it does not depend on ffmpeg but can use it.
Am I wrong, or is it that it's not just dependencies but anything that uses
the package that gets removed?
Anne
1:49 p.m.
New subject: DVD problem
On Monday 01 January 2007 19:40, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> I've not come across this problem before. Most of my DVDs
play
> correctly. Is this an additional drm layer or similar?
I do not know why you are having problems with xine.
But you have to fix libavcodec, which is part of ffmpeg.
ffmpeg contains all of the codecs: DivX3,4,5, xvid, aac, a52, etc...
In windows, it is known by ffdshow. It is the heart of mplayer.
ffmpeg can be downloaded from freshrpms (FC6):
http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=801
or, if you are not using FC6, then I suggest you to get ffmpeg from ATrpms:
http://atrpms.net/name/ffmpeg/
If you want just to play dvds, the best program is vlc, also available
in freshrpms.
It has a better control of dvd menus.
http://www.videolan.org/
I haven't tried vlc yet. What I have done is removed xine and everything
related that I could find that came from livna and installed the freshrpms
versions, so that everything matches. I have ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.7.20061215.fc6
and faad2-2.5-1.fc6 which I believe are the freshrpms versions.
Unfortunately it has made no difference. Xine still tells me
The source seems encrypted, and can't be read.
Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws, you can or
can't install/use libdvdcss to be able to read this disc which you bought.
(Media stream scrambled/encrypted)
Grrrr.....
Anne
4:44 a.m.
New subject: DVD problem
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 19:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 01 January 2007 19:40, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > I've not come across this problem before. Most of my DVDs play
> > correctly. Is this an additional drm layer or similar?
>
> I do not know why you are having problems with xine.
>
> But you have to fix libavcodec, which is part of ffmpeg.
>
> ffmpeg contains all of the codecs: DivX3,4,5, xvid, aac, a52, etc...
> In windows, it is known by ffdshow. It is the heart of mplayer.
> ffmpeg can be downloaded from freshrpms (FC6):
>
> http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=801
>
> or, if you are not using FC6, then I suggest you to get ffmpeg from
> ATrpms:
>
> http://atrpms.net/name/ffmpeg/
>
> If you want just to play dvds, the best program is vlc, also available
> in freshrpms.
> It has a better control of dvd menus.
>
> http://www.videolan.org/
I haven't tried vlc yet. What I have done is removed xine and everything
related that I could find that came from livna and installed the freshrpms
versions, so that everything matches. I have ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.7.20061215.fc6
and faad2-2.5-1.fc6 which I believe are the freshrpms versions.
Unfortunately it has made no difference. Xine still tells me
The source seems encrypted, and can't be read.
Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws, you can or
can't install/use libdvdcss to be able to read this disc which you bought.
(Media stream scrambled/encrypted)
On top of everything else, the change has broken mjpegtools. It was, of
course, uninstalled and had to be reinstalled, but it is no longer possible
to edit an avi file with 'glav -p S filename.avi'. I'm sick of this kind of
fighting. It looks as though I'd be better off compiling mjpegtools from
source.
Anne
10:09 a.m.
New subject: DVD problem
On 3 Jan 2007, at 10:44, Anne Wilson wrote:
> [snip] I haven't tried vlc yet. What I have done is removed
xine
> and everything
> related that I could find that came from livna and installed the
> freshrpms
> versions, so that everything matches. I have
> ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.7.20061215.fc6
> and faad2-2.5-1.fc6 which I believe are the freshrpms versions.
> Unfortunately it has made no difference. Xine still tells me
>
> The source seems encrypted, and can't be read.
> Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws, you
> can or
> can't install/use libdvdcss to be able to read this disc which you
> bought.
> (Media stream scrambled/encrypted)
>
On top of everything else, the change has broken mjpegtools. It
was, of
course, uninstalled and had to be reinstalled, but it is no longer
possible
to edit an avi file with 'glav -p S filename.avi'. I'm sick of
this kind of
fighting. It looks as though I'd be better off compiling
mjpegtools from
source.
I suspect that you may be better off re-installing xine as per the
standard livna package and trying another way of de-crypting the BBC
disks. It may be of little help or consolation to you but I have had
the same problem with BBC disks -- I have a 1992 set of DVDs which
xine chews on for (what seems like) half an hour before returning an
error message. VideoLan didn't fare any better either. I haven't
tried newer disks from the Beeb but am not holding out any hope. They
are obviously encrypted in a commercially advantageous way because
they work fine in my iBook and in my "real" DVD player, a Marantz. I
have started installing dvdrip from freshrpms but am still having fun
working out the bits and bobs of missing library files ... :-)
Best wishes,
Ian
11:10 a.m.
New subject: DVD problem
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:09, tokyoi(a)mac.com wrote:
On 3 Jan 2007, at 10:44, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> [snip] I haven't tried vlc yet. What I have done is removed xine
>> and everything
>> related that I could find that came from livna and installed the
>> freshrpms
>> versions, so that everything matches. I have
>> ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.7.20061215.fc6
>> and faad2-2.5-1.fc6 which I believe are the freshrpms versions.
>> Unfortunately it has made no difference. Xine still tells me
>>
>> The source seems encrypted, and can't be read.
>> Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws, you
>> can or
>> can't install/use libdvdcss to be able to read this disc which you
>> bought.
>> (Media stream scrambled/encrypted)
>
> On top of everything else, the change has broken mjpegtools. It
> was, of
> course, uninstalled and had to be reinstalled, but it is no longer
> possible
> to edit an avi file with 'glav -p S filename.avi'. I'm sick of
> this kind of
> fighting. It looks as though I'd be better off compiling
> mjpegtools from
> source.
I suspect that you may be better off re-installing xine as per the
standard livna package
This livna/freshrpms business is a real bind.
and trying another way of de-crypting the BBC
disks. It may be of little help or consolation to you but I have had
the same problem with BBC disks -- I have a 1992 set of DVDs which
xine chews on for (what seems like) half an hour before returning an
error message.
I tried a recent BBC distribution of a 1970s series, The Lotus Eaters, and
that ran fine in xine. It seems that they are inconsistent. They're not
very linux friendly, either. It must be at least 2 years since I complained
to them that their audio clips were problematic.
VideoLan didn't fare any better either. I haven't
tried newer disks from the Beeb but am not holding out any hope. They
are obviously encrypted in a commercially advantageous way because
they work fine in my iBook and in my "real" DVD player, a Marantz.
Yes, the disk in question works perfectly in my LiteOn stand-alone player.
I
have started installing dvdrip from freshrpms but am still having fun
working out the bits and bobs of missing library files ... :-)
I've installed it but not tried it yet. Let us know how it goes?
Anne
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