Not sure if my post got deleted for posting under regular installation but I figured Xine is included in KnoppMyth so that would be the place to put it but i will try here instead.

When I try to play a dvd in Xine through Myth i get the error audio device in use when i select more for info the error is that there is an unknown buffer type.

Any Ideas

Craig

Ok now it seems to work???? strange
Just curious if anyone else has run into this?

R5a16.1
cs4294 sound card
sempron 2500
7nif board
2xpvr250 cards

hey I get this same error, however mine hasn't gone away yet I've been reading about changing the xine command from

xine dvd://

to

xine -pfhq --auto-scan dvd

but that didn't work, I'm wondering if I need to reinstall xine? did you do anything specific to get xine to work? I'm using R5A16 the xine window pops up but the error "audio device is in use" comes up


Thanks for anyhelp!

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Is your /dev/dvd link set correctly? Search for post by me that mention /dev/dvd should turn up multiple diagnostic and fix threads for different folks.

wow thanks for your quick reply,

ok after running the cd_link.sh I found that my /dev/dvd --> /dvd/hdd so I fixed the link so that it points to /dev/hdc which is my dvd-rom drive.

then I mounted the dvd drive (via ssh) and clicked on the playdvd button in mythtv.

dvd started up but again I got the audio error, anymore ideas?

also, from the xine window the error I get is:

audio_decoder: error, unknown buffer type: 01060000
audio_decoder: error, unknown buffer type: 04000000
audio_decoder: error, unknown buffer type: 02000000

but progress was made! lol the dvd-rom is now being accessed, aslo in my .xsessions-errors before it logged that the dvd drive couldn't be access and now is being accessed

thanks tho this is comming along one step at a time

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I'm slightly concerned that the script misdetected your optical drive. Try this to see what the kernel thinks is where:

well here's the output of my dmesg:



however now I'm getting acouple of new errors when I check .xsession-errors after clicking on the watch TV button:



heh but I still get video output ?! ( I'm a little confused) I've googled these and tried a search for a fix about this stuff in the forums and came up with nothing really useful yet, but I really appreciate your help

thanks again,

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Just a heads up on a couple of local rules - First off, posting post-install (yes this is post install according to Cecil's rather clear defintions) stuff to KnoppMyth->Install WILL get it nuked. Cecil is again very clear about that fact in the sticky "read this before posting" and "off topic postings will be deleted" messages. Frankly I can only applaud his efforts to maintain some kind of sanity and order. Secondly, he loaths "thread hijacking" i.e. changing topics in midthread (from problems with DVDs to watching TV in this case), so we'll ignore that for now and go back to the initial question.

The two optical drives is what confused the setup script, so that's explained. I forsee some future fun and games to get the CD burner working but that's for another day. You do realize that xine has nothing to do with normal TV playback right? It or mplayer are only used for optical disks like DVD and VCD, and ripped "videos", ordinary TV ("live" or recorded) uses an internal player. As for DVD playback, your problem maybe related to the fact that KnoppMyth doesn't support playing encrypted DVDs (most commercial DVDs are encrypted with something called the CSS) due to an evil little US law known as the DMCA that makes it illegal. As a result of justifiable concerns about some media lawyer making his life miserable Cecil has asked that we not discuss that topic beyond this point in the forums.

Yeah sorry about the off topic noise, we'll just stick to the initial problem, I do know that Xine and Mplayer are used for DVD / VCD / ripped videos, I know about CSS and that it's a little sketchy to talk about, however I can say that it shouldn't be an issue anymore hey what do you know haha works like a charm

Thanks tjc for all your help you rock!

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Glad to help.