Fw: is this project alive?
CORDING Darryl
darrylcording at energex.com.au
Fri Oct 13 02:49:13 CEST 2000
I forgot to mention this is my output to stdout/stderr when I attempt to
launch vlc....
[darrylc at bugs darrylc]$ vlc /mnt/dvd/video_ts/video_ts.vob
/mnt/dvd/video_ts/vts_02_[0123456].vob
VideoLAN Client - version 0.1.99h Onatopp - (c)1996-2000 VideoLAN
Playlist initialized
Plugin bank initialized
Plugin 0: X Window System 0.1.99h [0x200]
Plugin 1: Linux framebuffer 0.1.99h [0x100]
Plugin 2: Gnome 0.1.99h [0x200]
Plugin 3: Accelerated MMX YUV to RGB transformations 0.1.99h [0x200]
Plugin 4: C YUV to RGB transformations 0.1.99h [0x100]
Plugin 5: OSS /dev/dsp 0.1.99h [0x100]
Plugin 6: Dummy 0.1.99h [0x1]
VLANs initialized
Video display initialized (720x576, 16/16 bpp)
Disabling screen saver
Interface initialized
Playing file /mnt/dvd/video_ts/video_ts.vob
input: found a PTS, at last ...
Found MPEG video stream at 0xe0, allocating PID 0x20
Playing file /mnt/dvd/video_ts/vts_02_0.vob
Found MPEG private (DVD subtitle) stream at 0x21, allocating PID 0xa1
input error: not a startcode (0x2cfe02 instead of 0x000001)
Input initialized
input error: not a startcode (0x2cfe02 instead of 0x000001)
I'm not sure what the error 'not a startcode' means, it seems to suggest
that it can not find something to play? I get the same message with the rpm
version the 0.1.99h and the 0.1.99i versions.
Anybody seen this one before??
regards
Darryl
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:p at belial.ucdavis.edu]
Sent: Thursday, 12 October 2000 11:10 AM
To: 'vlc at videolan.org'
Cc: darrylcording at energex.com.au
Subject: RE: Fw: is this project alive?
daryl,
i don't really know, but let me take a stab at it. i agree that it sounds
like something isn't there in the kernel. dvd ioctls are in the kernel
versions 2.2.16 and up.
let me ask an obvious question -- when you recompiled the 2.4 kernel, did
you remember to make it your default kernel? are you sure you're running
the right kernel?
also, i don't know if this makes a difference, but is your System.map file
the correct one? it contains all exported symbols in kernel space;
normally, only klogd and a few select user space programs need it (like
dosemu), but i don't know much about programs like vlc or livid. maybe they
need a correct System.map too.
can you do an ls on /cdrom? can you mount it (see output of mount)?
just for fun, can you run fsck on hdd?
it really doesn't sound like a vlc/livid problem to me.
just a few thoughts. hope i didn't insult your intelligence by my lame
suggestions. :)
good luck!
pete
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, CORDING Darryl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am one of those people that noticed your email regarding vlc on the
livid
> list. I too was having all sorts issues with oms, although it ran pretty
> much out-of-the-box for me first time around(without quality audio), but I
> have never got it going again since. I downloaded vlc but have not been
able
> to get it going either, it just sits there with "waiting for stream....".
> Output from stdout/stderr has been variable, first I would get messages of
> the form "can not find starting point.." now all I get are seg faults.
There
> are all various error messages produced depending one which vob's I tell
vlc
> to use. That maybe normal, I am not that familiar with dvd filesystems
yet.
>
> In /var/log/messages I continually get this:
> Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x50
> Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: ATAPI device hdd:
> Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense
> key=0x05)
> Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: Cannot read medium - incompatible
> format -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x02)
> Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: The failed "Read Subchannel" packet
> command was:
> Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00
> "
> Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51
> { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>
> Which suggests to me that I'm missing something in the kernel, probably in
> the cdrom-ide driver. I have tried kernels 2.2.12-20, 2.2.16-3 and
> 2.4.0-test9 but all give the same error messages. Next I will try
2.2.16-22.
> I have been using Xfree86 3.3, I have download 4.0 but have not installed
it
> as yet.
>
> My dvd drive as detected at bootup is, TORiSAN DVD-ROM DRD-U624, ATAPI
CDROM
> drive.
>
> I was wondering if anybody has come across this before any maybe able to
> point me in the right direction from here ??
>
> Thanks for any feedback
> Darryl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:p at belial.ucdavis.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2000 6:31 PM
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: Re: Fw: is this project alive?
>
>
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000, bharat tewari wrote:
> >
> > > well i don't know whether this project is still alive or not but i
> > > have a question.
> >
> > The project is still alive, but as the new term has just started
> > here, we first have to organize a bit as to which students will do what
> > (it's mostly a school project, and we have to deal with a few additional
> > constraints).
>
> sam, fwiw, i think a lot of people are using livid because the dvd playing
> howto only mentions this option for playing dvd's.
>
> i stumbled onto vlc via the debian mailing list, and got my dvd playing
> within a few minutes via your vlc rpm.
>
> after compiling the source with ppro and mmx enabled, dvd playing was
> nearly flawless under a PII/400. it WAS flawless after setting up the
> mtrr's correctly and switching from enlightenment to the mwm window
> manager.
>
> i mentioned this on the livid mailing list, and a WHOLE BUNCH of people
> asked me about the videolan project. everyone was impressed by the
project;
> livid cvs hasn't compiled (and i'm not newbie) for quite some time. it's
> been very frustrating for a lot of people. vlc is fantastic software.
>
> on behalf of linux dvd owners, i wanted to thank you and the vlc
developers
> and give you my utmost encouragement for your project.
>
> simply put, you guys are fantastic. thank you!
>
> pete
>
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