Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Playing DVD problems
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:07:35
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0711280605l352576bagf7649b72e1b4d097@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Playing DVD problems by Jim Seymour
1 I use xine to play movies. No problems here:
2
3 lightning ~ # emerge -pv xine-ui xine-lib
4
5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
6
7 Calculating dependencies... done!
8 [ebuild R ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.8 USE="X a52 alsa dts dvd
9 flac gnome gtk ipv6 jack mad nls opengl oss sdl truetype v4l vorbis xv
10 -aac -aalib (-altivec) -arts -debug -directfb -dxr3 -esd -fbcon
11 -imagemagick -libcaca -mmap -mng -modplug -musepack -pulseaudio -real
12 -samba -speex -theora -vcd (-vidix) -wavpack (-win32codecs) -xcb
13 -xinerama -xvmc" 0 kB
14 [ebuild R ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5 USE="X ncurses nls
15 readline -aalib -curl -debug -libcaca -lirc -vdr -xinerama" 2,546 kB
16
17 Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 2,546 kB
18 lightning ~ #
19
20 On Nov 28, 2007 4:26 AM, Jim Seymour <jim@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
21 > Is it possible to play DVD's under Gentoo AMD64? I can mount and read
22 > the discs fine. I have been trying to use Totem to play DVDs and all I
23 > get is "Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not
24 > have the appropriate plugins to handle it"
25 >
26 > I found a suggestion in a Gentoo Forum to run this command to find out
27 > what is missing:
28 > emerge -sv gst-plugins | grep -B 2 "Not Installed"
29 > This produced a long list of mostly masked packages. Totem is built with
30 > dvd support and I have the amd64codecs installed. I also have libdvdcss
31 > installed. Is there a good howto on DVD under Gentoo?
32 >
33 > Thanks,
34 >
35 > --
36 > Jim Seymour <jim@××××××××××××.com>
37 >
38 > --
39 > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
40 >
41 >
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