On Thursday 04 January 2007 02:34, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
Hi, Anne
lets go by parts. As I said before, I do not know why xine is not
reading your dvds.
Fine - I can live with this as it's only a small number of DVDs that are
affected.
1) Xine should be statically linked against ffmpeg,
so it will not be affected by the update. xine-lib comes from extras.
You only need the gui (xine) and the non free part:
xine-lib-moles from freshrpms (equivalent to xine-lib-extras-nonfree
from livna).
These I have.
2) On the other hand, the update will fix libavcodec, needed by
mplayer.
Therefore, you have three programs to try: xine, mplayer and vlc. All of
them use libdvdcss, that you have to install.
That's installed.
3) mjpegtools 1.9.0 has a bug. It does not recognize -p S
The command
'lavplay -p S filename.avi'
gives: Unknown playback mode: 'S'
Version 1.9.1 from cvs (ATrpms) fixes this, and works
with libquicktime 0.9.8.
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/mjpegtools-devel-1.9.1-14_cvs20061009.fc6.at.i386.
rpm
I suppose you were using mjpegtools 1.8.
I was, previously. It was uninstalled as a dependency when I removed the
livna ffmpeg package. I have downloaded the .tar.gz and had intended
compiling it later today, but I'll try the mjpegtools from ATrpms. The link
you gave me says 'mjpegtools-devel' - is this right?
3) dvdrip is based on transcode, and uses mjpegtools for SVCD
encoding.
I have used it many times for converting a dvd to avi (compressing with
xvid, in general).
It is very simple to use, but it has to be able to rip the dvd first.
Otherwise, nothing else
can be done.
It is transcode that forces the upgrade of mjpegtools to 1.9.
And finally, mythtv (a very popular PVR) requires transcode.
I haven't tried any of these things :-) My need is simple, but important to
me. I use mjpegtools for processing video from an analogue camcorder to
create DVDs.
The main problem is that everything is connected, and must match.
Thanks, Paulo. That's very helpful.
Anne