which proram is good for playing a movie or a dvd with linux ........................is ther any program anyway

Check out h**p://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/linux/index.html for a few good DVD Players. I personally reccomend VideoLAN, although I hear that LiViD is supposed to be quite good (may check it out).

Hope this helps.

If you need install instructions just come back here and post.

Xine! h**p://xine.sourceforge.net i can play encrypted dvds via libcss. :cool:

LiViD isn't that wonderful. You can't watch DVD's in fullscreen!!!

CARTMAN how do you manage to play encrypted DVD's? I have installed libcss but they still won't play.

If you use xine you have to check Captain CSS plugin for xine and compile it for Xine then you can play encrypted DVDs. For more info http://debianlinux.net/captain_css.html

Cheers cartman

I have installed the latest version of Xine along with the Captain CSS plugin. Now I get the error "xine: error while loading shared libraries: libpng.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". Any ideas?

Well that means you dont have libpng installed go www.rpmfind.net and search for libpng and download the latest mandrake one...

Cheers cartman

According to rpminst everything is already installed.

Then try this

find / -name "libpng*"

as root paste the results so we can see whats going on...

Cheers cartman

This is what is happening.

[maarut@pc-62-31-131-213-mo maarut]$ su root
Password:
[root@pc-62-31-131-213-mo maarut]# find / -name libpng.so.2
find: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error
find: /mnt/cdrom2: Input/output error
[root@pc-62-31-131-213-mo maarut]#

Well why dont you do this as i said :)
find / -name "libpng.so*"

:) Now post again dude...

Sorry. Here you go.

[maarut@pc-62-31-131-213-mo guarddog-1.9.6]$ su root
Password:
[root@pc-62-31-131-213-mo guarddog-1.9.6]# find / -name "libpng.so*"
/usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.1
/usr/lib/libpng.so.3
/usr/lib/libpng.so
find: /mnt/floppy: Input/output error
find: /mnt/cdrom2: Input/output error
[root@pc-62-31-131-213-mo guarddog-1.9.6]#

Do a ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so /usr/lib/libpng.so.2

then try again.

Cheers cartman

I get this error.

[maarut@pc-62-31-131-213-mo maarut]$ xine
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.9cvs
(c) 2000, 2001 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team.
Built with xine library 0.9.9 [Fri 19 Apr 2002 04:12:02]-[gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-93)]-[Linux 2.4.19-pre3 i586].
Found xine library version: 0.9.9 (0.9.9cvs).
Display is not using Xinerama.
libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.0.9
libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.2.1
libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in application and library
IMLIB ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/xine/skins/xinetic/MainBg.png
All fallbacks failed.
[maarut@pc-62-31-131-213-mo maarut]$

I've downgraded to xine 0.9.8. It's all working now. But I am still haveing difficulty in playing DVD's.

Well this is because you got a pre-compiled xine which is compiled for another system try to compile xine from source and you will get no errors like that but beware xine compiling can be shitty....

[quote:756f651abc][i:756f651abc]Originally posted by CARTMAN [/i:756f651abc]
[b]Well this is because you got a pre-compiled xine which is compiled for another system try to compile xine from source and you will get no errors like that but beware xine compiling can be shitty.... [/quote:756f651abc]

Done. Can you tell me how to play DVD's. It still doesn't work.

Still got libpng error ?

No.

Well if you dont tell me the error how am I supposed to solve it ? :-)

I click on the d5d button and press play. Then Xine closes.

Well execute from terminal and tell me the message and xine looks for /dev/dvd for your dvd device you can change in xine configuration screen.That might be the problem.

This is what I get from when I press play:

dvd_reader: opening /dev/dvd...
dvd_reader: reset drive
dvd_reader: authenticate drive
dvd_reader: authenticate title
GetTitleKey failed: Input/output error
dvd_reader: decrypt title key...
dvd_reader: encrypted
xine-panel: PLAY
xine_play: xine open dvd5://, start pos = 0, start time = 0 (sec)
dvd_reader: opening /dev/dvd...
dvd_reader: reset drive
dvd_reader: authenticate drive
dvd_reader: authenticate title
GetTitleKey failed: Input/output error
dvd_reader: decrypt title key...
dvd_reader: encrypted
xine: using input plugin >d5d< for this MRL (dvd5://).
demux_mpeg_block: mrl dvd5:// is new, will estimated bitrate
xine: using demuxer plugin >MPEG_BLOCK< for this MRL.
metronom: video stream start...
Segmentation fault

The configuration is correct.

I think this is a bug because it gives a segmantation fault you better subscribe to xine-dev mailing list @ xine.sf.net and tell them your problem...

OK. Thanks for your help CARTMAN. Just out of interest where did you learn everything about Linux from?

www.google.com
irc.openprojects.net #slackware
www.slashdot.org
www.sf.net


Cheers cartman