Probably you got installed this two libs:
* media-libs/libdvdcss
Latest version available: 1.2.8
Latest version installed: 1.2.8
Size of downloaded files: 204 kB
Homepage:
http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/ Description: A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption
License: GPL-2
* media-libs/libdvdnav
Latest version available: 0.1.9
Xine uses both to decode and to menu navigation to play dvd's...
umm... it never crashes to me when I play dvd's... so I cann't help
you with that... does it give you some console error when it crashes?
David GP
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:07:41 +0100, Ryan Coates <ryan.coates@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi guys, thanks for all your feed back
> i fired im xine again and to my suprise it now plays DVDs, the only
> thing i have done is re compiled mplayer with dvdread, which i noticed
> added another piece of source, perhaps xine uses this also
>
> now the only problem i have is xine crashes a few seconds after i go
> into full screen mode :/
>
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:15:25 -0500, David Eduardo Gómez Noguera
>
>
> <davidgn@servidor.unam.mx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 04:16, Ryan Coates wrote:
> > > ive set all the appropiate settings to /dev/cdrom
> > > will this cause problems? and should i make a link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd?
> > > will an app likely treat them differently? didnt think it would
> > >
> >
> > /dev/cdrom is likely a link too. now youve got /dev/dvd that is a 2nd
> > level link, so to speak.
> > would be better if you link dvd to the actual device, i.e. /dev/hdc
> >
> > would apps treat them differently? well, an app will suppose that
> > /dev/dvd is a dvd driver and /dev/cdrom a cdrom unless you tell it
> > otherwise (like with xine. you could have as well configured xine to use
> > /dev/cdrom as your dvd device)
> >
> > I have had that same error message with xine but it turned out it was
> > because I had no dvd device (I preffered to create it rather that to
> > modify xine's configuration) and I had not enough perms to access
> > /dev/hdd (my dvd drive).
> > After that error message came the error that told me the device didnt
> > exist or it didnt have enough perms
> >
> > Was this the problem you had?
> >
> > > > check your devices existence and perms
> > > >
> > > > i.e. xine uses /dev/dvd by default.
> > > > check that it exists and, if it is a link, that both have proper
> > > > permissions.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > any ideas?
> > > > > Thanks from a Gentoo noob
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
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>
> Ryan "Phoenix" Coates
> ryan.coates@gmail.com
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