Re: Problems--XV and certain DVDs

Sat Jul 17 2004, Sam Kaplan wrote:
> I'm having a few problems with ogle on my Gentoo system.
> 
> First of all, fullscreeen doesn't actually make the video fullscreen. 
> The FAQ says that this is a problem with xv not being set up right. 
> Running xvinfo says that no adapters are present. However, running 
> xvattr gives me "Found Xv 2.2" so it must be available somewhere. Do I 
> need to add anything to my xorg.conf file or something?
> 
"Found Xv 2.2" simply means that your X server support the Xv extension.
But if you don't have an adater then you specific driver does not support
Xv.  I.e. it depends on what graphics card you have and which driver that
is used.  xvinfo should print a lot of information.  Xorg seems to be a
bit wors than Xfree86 in this regard.

You'll have to tell us exactly what card you have or I can't give you any
more info regarding this.

> Also, certain DVDs are unplayable. Most work fine, but one says "Could 
> not open /dev/dvd with livdvdcss." This disc doesn't mount however, with 
> mount giving the error "no medium found." Another one gives me a "Can't 
> open file VIDEO_TS.IFO." but it mounts fine, and a file does exist at 
> "/mnt/dvd/video_ts/video_ts.ifo" These are both discs in a series 
> (different series from each other, though) and other discs in both 
> series work fine. Any advice?

Most likely libdvdcss can't work around the CSS encryption on thes disc
or your drive is blocking reading of the data.  Run ogle --debug to get
more information regarding this.   Having write access to the drive is
important.  Setting the region might also help.  If you want to play
disc from differen region you might also need to install a region free
firmware for your DVD drive.

Regards
/Håkan