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Carl Hudkins wrote:

>On Sun July 31 2005 15:16, Mike S wrote:
>
>
>
>>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?
>>
>>
>
> What color depth are you running X in? I recall having severe problems
>playing any sort of video in 24-bit color, so then I changed to 16-bit and I
>have no problems. I do notice that when playing most videos the colors of my
>desktop background get messed up, but I consider that a trivial problem and
>ignore it. (In a couple of hours the background changes, anyway.)
>
> If you run "xine --verbose dvd://" in a command window, do you get any
>helpful information about what it's doing or where it quits?
>
>
>
xine doesn't quit, totem does, but xine doesn't, xine just plays a blank
screen. I think I am in 24-bit depth and I will look into changing that.
Thanks a bunch.

--Mike S
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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:michael_six@users.sourceforge.net]
Verzonden: zondag 31 juli 2005 21:16
Aan: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org
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
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On Sun July 31 2005 15:16, Mike S wrote:

> 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?

What color depth are you running X in? I recall having severe problems
playing any sort of video in 24-bit color, so then I changed to 16-bit and I
have no problems. I do notice that when playing most videos the colors of my
desktop background get messed up, but I consider that a trivial problem and
ignore it. (In a couple of hours the background changes, anyway.)

If you run "xine --verbose dvd://" in a command window, do you get any
helpful information about what it's doing or where it quits?

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Carl Hudkins wrote:

>On Sun July 31 2005 15:16, Mike S wrote:
>
>
>
>>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?
>>
>>
>
> What color depth are you running X in? I recall having severe problems
>playing any sort of video in 24-bit color, so then I changed to 16-bit and I
>have no problems. I do notice that when playing most videos the colors of my
>desktop background get messed up, but I consider that a trivial problem and
>ignore it. (In a couple of hours the background changes, anyway.)
>
> If you run "xine --verbose dvd://" in a command window, do you get any
>helpful information about what it's doing or where it quits?
>
>
>
Thank you Carl! I checked my xorg.conf (because I don't know how to
change but-depth in a gui) and changed my default Depth to 16 instead of
24, and in the end, that's the only thing that worked. Sorry it's been
so long, but I have been busy with Slackware on my girlfriend's laptop.

--Mike S
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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:michael_six@users.sourceforge.net]
>Verzonden: zondag 31 juli 2005 21:16
>Aan: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org
>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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