Daniel Lawson wrote:
Santa was nice to me this year and gave me a Pioneer DVR-108 for christmas. After installing this into my gentoo box, I was fairly happy to see that I could run
gmplayer dvd://
And have it start playing the dvd. However, it appears that mplayer isn't so good at playing the root menu.
After some discussion on IRC, totem was suggested. I'd never really liked totem, and had found mplayer a much better player, but I tried it.
Currently it seems that DVD playback with the gstreamer backed to totem is dead. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71519 implies rebuilding totem without gstreamer support should do the job, but that seems tedious.
Does anyone have any experience with DVD playback under linux? (distro agnostic, I'd just like to see what software/versions people are using)
I've had no major trouble with xine (0.99.1) and totem (0.99.16 using xine-lib 1.0.0) i seem to recall having to setup sound but I think that was just to make it play to the card i wanted (2 soundcards). The only issue i have seen is that the video only seems to work from second load onwards i suspect theres a video module not loaded that gets loaded the first time i use it. It hasnt been enough trouble to bother tracking it down. vlc (0.8.0) also seems to be working fine