Playing DVDs

[Old-Polack]

georgetoon:

If you have xine, and the xine-gui packages installed, open a terminal, with a movie DVD in the tray of the second optical drive, and enter;

[polack@fatman ~]$ xine dvd://dev/hdx

Replace hdx with the correct designation for the second optical drive. Otherwise try;

[polack@fatman ~]$ smplayer dvd://dev/hdx

[polack@fatman ~]$ kaffeine dvd://dev/hdx

[polack@fatman ~]$ gmplayer dvd:// /dev/hdx -really-quiet

Note the space between dvd:// and /dev/hdx in the last command. All of these commands work for me, even after removing the device designations entirely from the preferences/configuration for each application.

[Georgetoon]

georgetoon:

If you have xine, and the xine-gui packages installed, open a terminal, with a movie DVD in the tray of the second optical drive, and enter;

[polack@fatman ~]$ xine dvd://dev/hdx

Replace hdx with the correct designation for the second optical drive. Otherwise try;

[polack@fatman ~]$ smplayer dvd://dev/hdx

[polack@fatman ~]$ kaffeine dvd://dev/hdx

[polack@fatman ~]$ gmplayer dvd:// /dev/hdx -really-quiet

Note the space between dvd:// and /dev/hdx in the last command. All of these commands work for me, even after removing the device designations entirely from the preferences/configuration for each application.

I'll give this a go tonight...even though the report I got showed that DVD and CDROM were both hda?  I should just drop in drive two and give it the designate as hda.  I'll give it a go.

[Old-Polack]

georgetoon:

If you have xine, and the xine-gui packages installed, open a terminal, with a movie DVD in the tray of the second optical drive, and enter;

[polack@fatman ~]$ xine dvd://dev/hdx

Replace hdx with the correct designation for the second optical drive. Otherwise try;

[polack@fatman ~]$ smplayer dvd://dev/hdx

[polack@fatman ~]$ kaffeine dvd://dev/hdx

[polack@fatman ~]$ gmplayer dvd:// /dev/hdx -really-quiet

Note the space between dvd:// and /dev/hdx in the last command. All of these commands work for me, even after removing the device designations entirely from the preferences/configuration for each application.

I'll give this a go tonight...even though the report I got showed that DVD and CDROM were both hda?  I should just drop in drive two and give it the designate as hda.  I'll give it a go.

No. Give it the designation /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd depending on where it's hooked up to whichever cable it's connected to.

For IDE/PATA drives, the drives are disignated as follows;

/dev/hda = Master on the primary controller
/dev/hdb = Slave on the primary controller
/dev/hdc = Master on the secondary controller
/dev/hdd = Slave on the secondary controller

Proper master/slave jumpers need to be set on each drive.

[Georgetoon]

georgetoon:

If you have xine, and the xine-gui packages installed, open a terminal, with a movie DVD in the tray of the second optical drive, and enter;

[polack@fatman ~]$ xine dvd://dev/hdx

Replace hdx with the correct designation for the second optical drive. Otherwise try;

[polack@fatman ~]$ smplayer dvd://dev/hdx

[polack@fatman ~]$ kaffeine dvd://dev/hdx

[polack@fatman ~]$ gmplayer dvd:// /dev/hdx -really-quiet

Note the space between dvd:// and /dev/hdx in the last command. All of these commands work for me, even after removing the device designations entirely from the preferences/configuration for each application.

I'll give this a go tonight...even though the report I got showed that DVD and CDROM were both hda?  I should just drop in drive two and give it the designate as hda.  I'll give it a go.

No. Give it the designation /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd depending on where it's hooked up to whichever cable it's connected to.

For IDE/PATA drives, the drives are disignated as follows;

/dev/hda = Master on the primary controller
/dev/hdb = Slave on the primary controller
/dev/hdc = Master on the secondary controller
/dev/hdd = Slave on the secondary controller

Proper master/slave jumpers need to be set on each drive.

Thanks for clarification.   I'll check with Weric on this as he built the system and would know for sure.

[Was_Just19]

As I posted earlier ..... I began to have such problems ONLY after upgrading to KDE4.

I may blame myself for upgrading, but not for the problems that ensued.   

[Georgetoon]

As I posted earlier ..... I began to have such problems ONLY after upgrading to KDE4.

I may blame myself for upgrading, but not for the problems that ensued.   

And just to clarify...you have two DVD drives?

[Was_Just19]

As I posted earlier ..... I began to have such problems ONLY after upgrading to KDE4.

I may blame myself for upgrading, but not for the problems that ensued.   

And just to clarify...you have two DVD drives?

Yes.

[smileeb]

Don't like being a wet blanket on this subject, but the one movie I tried worked great in dragon player.

The system is my laptop with the DVD that came installed and a usb DVD player.

Putting the DVD in each player at different times the box popped up with the different selection for your choices.

I selected use dragon player to play the movie and it worked both times.

I am running KDE4.

[Georgetoon]

Don't like being a wet blanket on this subject, but the one movie I tried worked great in dragon player.

The system is my laptop with the DVD that came installed and a usb DVD player.

Putting the DVD in each player at different times the box popped up with the different selection for your choices.

I selected use dragon player to play the movie and it worked both times.

I am running KDE4.

No problem. I appreciate the feedback. 

I have the same situation. DragonPlayer is fine. it knows the difference between the two drives. it plays fine, but SMPlayer and Xine have better image quality, IMHO. and this is the problem. Xine and SMPlayer are confused as to which drive the disk is in.

[Georgetoon]

if thre wre a way to tweak DragonPlayer a bit, this issue would be solved due to DP beign able to play either drive with no poblems.

Is there a way to tweak video streaming/playback in DragonPlayer? I've looked everywhere for info on how to get under the hood, but can only find that DP uses Phonon and Solid.