David McGuffey wrote:
This is my first post here on the CentOS forums. I've been running Fedora since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work. But this is my first foray into CentOS.
I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability to view a lot of different video clips on the Internet, and have the ability to listen to a variety of music files. However, watching a DVD movie still escapes me. I followed all the steps on the page in the wiki, and had no errors in the output.
When I put the DVD (Master and Commander in this case), into the drive, totem automatically comes up and I get a warning that I don't have the correct codec to play it.
I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive.
So...what final steps do I need to complete to get a commercial DVD movie to play?
machine is a Dell Latitude D830 with 2GB of ram and an Intel Core 2 Duo.
you could install xine (it's in rpmforge), it works well for me for DVDs. then the following should work: xine dvd://
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
David McGuffey wrote:
I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive.
you could install xine (it's in rpmforge), it works well for me for DVDs. then the following should work: xine dvd://
I like xine for most DVD playing - as long as it recognizes the DVD, I have no trouble with it at all. It also has a feature that mplayer lacks - turning off the screen saver while the movie is playing (which also has its drawbacks...).
Mplayer needs a little more information to play a DVD than just running it. You didn't post your command line, so I'm not sure what you did, but you typically have to enter something like this:
mplayer -dvd-device /dev/<your-dvd-player-here> dvd://<track #>
(or do what I did and make an alias for it). If your screen saver is on a timer that's shorter than the movie, you'll need to type something or move the mouse every so often, too, and you have to be careful not to type something that will stop mplayer!
I've never had any luck with totem. It has never had the right codecs, it doesn't update with yum to get them, it won't automatically go fetch them, and since I like both xine and mplayer, I never bothered to find out why or how.
HTH
mhr
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:07pm, MHR wrote
I like xine for most DVD playing - as long as it recognizes the DVD, I have no trouble with it at all. It also has a feature that mplayer lacks - turning off the screen saver while the movie is playing (which also has its drawbacks...).
Erm, what? $ man mplayer . . -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. If your screensaver supports neither the XSS nor XResetScreen- Saver API please use -heartbeat-cmd instead.
That being said, that flag didn't work for me with gnome-screensaver (it works just fine with xscreensaver). The referenced "heartbeat-cmd" flag and the example included in the manpage works just fine, though. Any of those options can be included in one's ~/.mplayer/config file to be automatically used during any mplayer session.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
Erm, what? $ man mplayer . . -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. If your screensaver supports neither the XSS nor XResetScreen- Saver API please use -heartbeat-cmd instead.
Hey, gimme a break! It's a LONG man page....
Also, thanks!
mhr
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:26pm, MHR wrote
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
Erm, what? $ man mplayer . . -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. If your screensaver supports neither the XSS nor XResetScreen- Saver API please use -heartbeat-cmd instead.
Hey, gimme a break! It's a LONG man page....
Heh, that it is.
Also, thanks!
No problem.
At Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:37:16 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:26pm, MHR wrote
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
Erm, what? $ man mplayer . . -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. If your screensaver supports neither the XSS nor XResetScreen- Saver API please use -heartbeat-cmd instead.
Hey, gimme a break! It's a LONG man page....
Heh, that it is.
Yes indeed. mplayer has many (useful!) options and it is good that they all are *well* documented. Far too many programs have NO man page at all or skimpy ones...
Also, thanks!
No problem.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:26pm, MHR wrote
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
$ man mplayer . -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. If your screensaver supports neither the XSS nor XResetScreen- Saver API please use -heartbeat-cmd instead.
"Erm, what?"
-stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit.
These are the only two appearances of the word "screensaver" on the man page. There is no reference to a heartbeat-cmd.... (CentOS 5.3)
)-;
mhr
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:44pm, MHR wrote
"Erm, what?"
-stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit.These are the only two appearances of the word "screensaver" on the man page. There is no reference to a heartbeat-cmd.... (CentOS 5.3)
What version of mplayer are you using (and from what repo)? The CentOS version doesn't help too much, as mplayer isn't included in any of the default repos. And this doesn't appear to be a very recent feature (googling reveals references to it that are over a year old).
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
What version of mplayer are you using (and from what repo)? The CentOS version doesn't help too much, as mplayer isn't included in any of the default repos. And this doesn't appear to be a very recent feature (googling reveals references to it that are over a year old).
You made me look, and I found that I was missing a couple of packages. I now have:
mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf.noarch mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.x86_64 mplayer-skins-1.8-1.nodist.rf.noarch mplayer-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64 mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.i386 mplayer-docs-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64
These are the most recent imports from rpmforge.
BUT: I looked again, and the man page remains the same.... I even checked the mplayer home site, and neither option is mentioned in their documentation.
???
mhr
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 1:06pm, MHR wrote
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
What version of mplayer are you using (and from what repo)? The CentOS version doesn't help too much, as mplayer isn't included in any of the default repos. And this doesn't appear to be a very recent feature (googling reveals references to it that are over a year old).
You made me look, and I found that I was missing a couple of packages. I now have:
mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf.noarch mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.x86_64 mplayer-skins-1.8-1.nodist.rf.noarch mplayer-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64 mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.i386 mplayer-docs-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64
These are the most recent imports from rpmforge.
That may be, but that's actually a *very* old version of mplayer. The most recent "release" of mplayer is 1.0rc2, and *that's* dated 10/7/07 (see http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ChangeLog). Most folks run SVN snapshots of mplayer -- rpmfusion's package for Fedora, e.g., is a SVN snapshot from 9/3/08. And even that is too old for a lot of things. For my HTPC, e.g., I compiled mplayer from my own SVN checkout so I could use VDPAU, which only got added within the last few months.
BUT: I looked again, and the man page remains the same.... I even checked the mplayer home site, and neither option is mentioned in their documentation.
I see -heartbeat-cmd on http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html.
MHR wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
David McGuffey wrote:
I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive.
you could install xine (it's in rpmforge), it works well for me for DVDs. then the following should work: xine dvd://
I like xine for most DVD playing - as long as it recognizes the DVD, I have no trouble with it at all. It also has a feature that mplayer lacks - turning off the screen saver while the movie is playing (which also has its drawbacks...).
Mplayer needs a little more information to play a DVD than just running it. You didn't post your command line, so I'm not sure what you did, but you typically have to enter something like this:
mplayer -dvd-device /dev/<your-dvd-player-here> dvd://<track #>
(or do what I did and make an alias for it). If your screen saver is on a timer that's shorter than the movie, you'll need to type something or move the mouse every so often, too, and you have to be careful not to type something that will stop mplayer!
I've never had any luck with totem. It has never had the right codecs, it doesn't update with yum to get them, it won't automatically go fetch them, and since I like both xine and mplayer, I never bothered to find out why or how.
HTH
mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I regularly use mplayer, xine and vlc. I have found totem to be un-intelligent, never has the codecs one needs, cannot find how to fix so as life is short yum remove totem* worked for me.
David McGuffey wrote:
This is my first post here on the CentOS forums. I've been running Fedora since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work. But this is my first foray into CentOS.
I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability to view a lot of different video clips on the Internet, and have the ability to listen to a variety of music files. However, watching a DVD movie still escapes me. I followed all the steps on the page in the wiki, and had no errors in the output.
When I put the DVD (Master and Commander in this case), into the drive, totem automatically comes up and I get a warning that I don't have the correct codec to play it.
I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive.
So...what final steps do I need to complete to get a commercial DVD movie to play?
machine is a Dell Latitude D830 with 2GB of ram and an Intel Core 2 Duo.
Have you tried vlc from the rpmforge repo? It will usually play anything you throw at it.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David McGuffey davidmcguffey@verizon.net wrote:
This is my first post here on the CentOS forums. I've been running Fedora since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work. But this is my first foray into CentOS.
I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability to view a lot of different video clips on the Internet, and have the ability to listen to a variety of music files. However, watching a DVD movie still escapes me. I followed all the steps on the page in the wiki, and had no errors in the output.
DVD playing has been kind of an odd problem for me on my desktop computer using CentOS 5.3. No problem at all on my laptop. I like and use VLC, but it won't play DVDs on this particular computer -- I get a segmentation error. Nor will mPlayer or Totem work. Xine works fine, so I just use that. VLC works fine on my laptop. I've never had any luck with Totem.
When I put the DVD (Master and Commander in this case), into the drive, totem automatically comes up and I get a warning that I don't have the correct codec to play it.
That's my experience. And there never seems to be any fix that actually works.
I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive.
mPlayer, on my computer, recognizes the DVD, it just doesn't play it.
So...what final steps do I need to complete to get a commercial DVD movie to play?
machine is a Dell Latitude D830 with 2GB of ram and an Intel Core 2 Duo.
The first thing I would try is downloading and installing VLC. If that doesn't work, go for Xine.
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