RonyBill wrote...
In my xine in suse 10.1, there is no VCD button, only dvb and dvd. I feel its a scaled down version. When I was compiling the xine-lib from the tar file, it did have entries for vcds. But the problem is that I cannot remove the installed rpm as it gives dependency errors of other players. Totem too does not work.
In my FC5 there is no xine as the rpm -q does not show any xine entry. The command 'xine' too does not work indicating there's no xine installed. However there is totem as well as noatun. They are supposed to be xine guis. Totem can list my vcd in its file menu but it cannot run it as it gives an error of 'cannot find path'. (in both oses)
I have observed that the new linux OSes don't have entries for cd drives in fstab. Are the new kernels using some virtual method of mounting cds? They don't show up in the mount command either.
Could you give an exact list of steps you took to load FC5 and get xine working? If anyone else can give the same steps for Suse 10.1 then that would be great.
Well rony ...I use FC5 and xine works perfect for me. Here's what I did... 1] Enable freshrpms repo in yum/yumex (I prefer yumex)
2] do yum install xine-lib kaffeine (its not 'xine' ..its 'xine-lib')
3] Have all the win32 dll files in /usr/lib/win32/
4]this will play all your vcd's and most avi files.
5] If you want all media capabilities, do 'yum install mplayer mencoder ' This is also from the freshrpms repo.Mplayer simply rocks.