Re: DVD Playback in Gentoo?

Sales wrote:

>Have you emerged totem with the xine use flag ? (Maybe try adding the xine
>useflag in your /etc/make.conf)
>
>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: Mike S [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Verzonden: zondag 31 juli 2005 21:16
>Aan: [email protected]
>Onderwerp: [gentoo-ppc-user] DVD Playback in Gentoo?
>
>I am new to gentoo so first, let me say I am lovin it.  However I am 
>also new to a source distribution, so I may need a little leeway with 
>the questions I ask.
>
>I have used now 3 different distributions, ubuntu, debian, and now 
>gentoo, and in all of them the same thing has happened, whenever I try 
>to play a dvd my screen gets a yellowish tint, my teminals that may be 
>open get distoted colors, (usually red) for the text in them, and it 
>won't play.  Has anyone gotten this to work?
>
>I have tried totem and xine in gentoo and ubuntu, and the same happens.  
>And one more thing.  I emerged totem, and that complained about needing 
>the xine backend, so then I emerged xine and re-emerged totem, and it 
>said it was using the xine backend, but at the end of the emerge it 
>still said that the default backend had been changed to gstreamer, do I 
>need to emerge something else?
>
>--Mike S
>  
>
I tried what you said, put xine in my /etc/make.conf USE section, and 
rebuilt totem.  Unfortuanately it still used the gstreamer backend, but 
it turns out changing my bit-depth from 24 to 16 in xorg.conf allowed me 
to play DVD's in both Xine and Totem, though totem seems to have 
problems in full screen and Xine is a bit twitchy.  I don't understand 
what, if any functionality is supposed to be lost due to the gstreamer 
backend instead of the Xine backend, but it said something about DVD 
menus, and I can use the menu on every DVD I have watched, so I am 
dumbfounded by what this is reffering to.

Thanks for the help though.

--Mike
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