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From: doug asherman <doug@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:59:38
Message-Id: 4598A25F.80200@musanon.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs by doug asherman
1 doug asherman wrote:
2 > Ric de France wrote:
3 >> There's also a "dvd" flag that may need to be turned on... This is my
4 >> totem verbose compile:
5 >
6 > Yeah, thanks, but the dvd flag was turned on. Made no difference. I'm
7 > trying to understand the ebuild now. There's a section that says
8
9 Ok, I tried it the way I set out below (fixing the "]" typo in the
10 if-else first), and still I don't get the dvd menus. So....there's
11 obviously more going on than I'm aware of. I'll continue investigating
12 next year...
13
14 Sorry not to be of any help.
15
16 Doug
17
18 >
19 > use xine || G2CONF="${G2CONF} --gstreamer-enable=yes"
20 >
21 > but it seems that perhaps it should be written
22 >
23 > if use xine; then
24 > G2CONF="${G2CONF] --gstreamer-enable=no"
25 > else
26 > G2CONF="${G2CONF] --gstreamer-enable=yes"
27 > fi
28 >
29 > or maybe the first one should be "--gstreamer-disable=yes" -- have to
30 > look at the configure options too.
31 >
32 > Soon as I figure out how to produce the checksum file for the ebuilds,
33 > I'll put this to the test.
34 >
35 > Doug
36 >
37 >
38 >> $ emerge -pv totem
39 >>
40 >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
41 >>
42 >> Calculating dependencies... done!
43 >> [ebuild R ] media-video/totem-2.16.4 USE="dbus dvd gnome hal mad
44 >> mpeg ogg vorbis xine xv -a52 -debug -ffmpeg -firefox -flac -lirc
45 >> -nsplugin -nvtv -theora" 0 kB
46 >>
47 >> HTH (but I feel like I'm hopefully going over the obvious)...
48 >>
49 >> ...Ric
50 >>
51 >> On 01/01/07, doug asherman <doug@×××××××.com> wrote:
52 >>> Alan wrote:
53 >>>> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
54 >>>>> Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me
55 >>> that I
56 >>>>> don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs. Anybody seen this
57 >>>>> before and know how to handle it?
58 >>>> Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags? I believe that
59 >>> xine is
60 >>>> needed for DVD menus.
61 >>> I'm not the original poster, but...
62 >>>
63 >>> According to a note at the end of an "emerge totem", if you use the xine
64 >>> backend, you get DVD menus. Just for kicks, I unmerged totem and
65 >>> re-emerged it with the xine keyword. Still no DVD menus.
66 >>>
67 >>> Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but perhaps this will help point the
68 >>> way towards what the problem is.
69 >>>
70 >>> In the meantime, may I suggest using xine to play DVDs? It's the best
71 >>> I've used (haven't used Ogle or Mplayer to play DVDs, though).
72 >>>
73 >>> Doug
74 >>> --
75 >>> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
76 >>>
77 >>>
78 >>
79 >
80
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