vlc playing dvd problems on debian

[Bradley M Alexander]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:48:06PM -0500, James Leigh wrote:
> I bough a DVD player x16, but I cannot get it to work properly.
>  It plays jumpy audio and blank video.  I put in a cd, with an mpeg
> video on it, in the DVD and used vlc to play, once mounted.  It work
> fine, but
> vlc cannot play DVDs.  I am trying this with a rented Romeo Must Die,
> because I read it does not use css and is region free.
> 
> I am using devfs, so my DVD player is /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 ->
> ../ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/cd
> I also craeted a link /dev/dvd -> ../ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/cd to
> work with.

Thats interesting, because I am having the same problem on a sid box. I,
however, also have a CD-RW on the same bus, so I am using scsi-ide
emulation. I was beginning to suspect that it was either the scsi-ide or
the devfs that was causing the problem. With the problems you are having, I
am beginning to suspect devfs more.

>  I use a debian sid distro, that is kept up-to-date.  My motherboard is
> ASUS A7V133 with an 1.2 Athlon.  I have a voodoo3 card, and aviplay can
> use the xvideo plugin to watch movies with no problems.  vlc can also
> use the xvideo extention for playing mepgs from a file.  I don't know
> much about DVDs so if any of you have a DVD player under linux, let me
> know your setup.

I am running a similar setup, with a 1.0GHz Athlon and a GeForce2 Pro card.
I have tried The Princess Bride, Terminator 2 and Kelly's Heroes. I have
Debian/PPC (sid) running on my powerbook G3 with a DVD drive, and Kelly's
Heroes plays fine (the audio is about a second out of sync, but it plays).

>  I have tried vlc with x11/sdl/xvideo and all do the same thing, when
> trying to play from disc, it loads all the modules and then unloads them
> all as if it gave up.  I have tried mounting the DVD and then openning a
> file in vlc, that is kinda better, I get jumpy audio and no video, same
> for all video plugins.  I also tried xine, it could not play from dvd
> device, but the files worked just as well as vlc.  I did install
> libdvdcss0.0.3 for encrypted DVDs, but I don't think this one is
> encrypted.

Is anyone using devfs that has gotten vlc to work successfully, and if so,
did you make any changes to devfs' config?

-- 
--Brad
============================================================================
Bradley M. Alexander, CISSP              |   Co-Chairman,
Beowulf System Admin/Security Specialist |    NoVALUG/DCLUG Security SIG
Debian/GNU Linux Developer		 |   storm at debian.org
                                         |   storm at tux.org
============================================================================
The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:
     a. when you're ready for them.
     b. when you're not ready for them.
						--Murphy's Laws of Combat