Just upgraded from R5F27 to R5.5. This was the smoothest upgrade yet, worked first time (thank you Cecil).

There is one small problem though, Xine cannot find the codecs when I run xine-check. It had these before the upgrade and now I am not sure if the upgrade has removed them, or if there is a script to get them (I recall there was a script to download them). I have already tried apt-get install xine-ui and libxine-dev (which didn't help and made lots of un-resolved dependencies). I how re-upgraded and I am back to a clean R5.5 installation (but still no xine).

Regards,

Algenon.

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Dragon without HDTV card, PVR350, PAL-UK

I am really stuck with this now. I have tried going back to R5F27, and xine will not work in that either. I have tried a fresh install of R5.5, and xine will not work. How are others playing DVD's with menu support?

Algenon.

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Dragon without HDTV card, PVR350, PAL-UK

What exactly does "will not work" mean? What are the error messages you are receiving?

I suspect something to the effect of "no plugin available to handle dvd" - If so, see this post.

The internal player works pretty good these days, and has menu support.

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Increasing my couch potatoness by a factor of pie.

Sorry, I didn't give much information in the original post. I tried regionset /dev/cdrom for region 2 (UK). Then I tried xine, both from the mythtv menu and as root, but on both occasions I got the following:


Any thoughts?

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Dragon without HDTV card, PVR350, PAL-UK

I've never had to set the region. Are you sure it's necessary?
Have you tried a variety of titles, not just one? If not, please do so (and check the condition of the DVD).
Try this with the DVD in the drive:
mount /cdrom
and tell us of any errors you encounter.
What type of drive are you using? Is it the standard Dragon one for the U.S. or Australia?

Mike

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I have tried a number of DVD's and none work. I don't think there is a problem with the DVD drive since mplayer will play them ok (but mplayer has no menu support which I need).

I have tried a fresh install of knoppmyth, still no xine.
I have even tried Mythbuntu and that worked first time!

There is definitely a problem somewhere with xine on R5.5.

Sorry to say it, but if I can't get it working, I shall have to switch to Mythbuntu or MythDora (which I don't really want to do!)

Algenon.

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Dragon without HDTV card, PVR350, PAL-UK

WFM, but there may be some region 1 default set somewhere...

Have you tried running xine manually and checking the settings? In the files region is the media.dvd.region setting in the /home/mythtv/.xine/config file.

Tried changing the region settings both from the Xine setup screen and home/mythtv/.xine/config and it is still the same.

I have now installed MythBuntu and strangely enough, xine did not work until I enabled the w64codecs, libdvdcss2 and ffmpeg codecs. I recall that when I installed R5A30.2, I had to run a script at to fix up the DVD problems.

I am prepared to be corrected, but I suspect that this issue with codecs has probably been missing from all subsequent releases of Knoppmyth from then onwards. Why was the script removed? Is it only me in region 2 that has this issue?

Just for some feedback, the installation of IR blasters on Mythbuntu is from the stone-age, I am back to manual installation from the command line (and still haven't got it working!)

If anyone can offer any suggestion to my problem, I would love to re-install R5.5!

Regards,

Algenon.

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Dragon without HDTV card, PVR350, PAL-UK

You need to install pineapple (just as you did for Mythbuntu). Search Google to find, for example, this page...