Error installing package.

English Multimedia
#1

openSUSE 11.1 KDE 3.6 64 bit.

I am trying to get my system to play DVDs and I have hit a problem when trying to install a package that is on the “list” in this thread. Check your multimedia problem in ten steps - openSUSE Forums

I am going down the list trying to get DVDs tro play. Trying to “update” this fluendo mp3 package and install the other recommended one I get this and don’t know what to do.http://www.slhess.com/pictures/gserror1.jpg

So far in “downgrading” and “upgrading” as YAST2 is recommending I have managed to break Kaffeine. I have yet to get my DVD to even be recognized :’( As one of the main things I do wiht my computer is watch Anime this is a big drag. This system is my daily driver as in I am on it like 12 hours a day.

#2

I forced it never mind.

#3

Not necessarily a good thing.
I would say the same about your desire to implement old tech in new. IMO you would do better going pure kde4

#4

I am not ready yet.

Simple things I use just don’t exist in KDE 4 yet and may never. Like the dictionary widget that sets in the panel I use that does online lookups. The one in KDE 4 has looks locally only ansd doesn’t “guess” very well. I have 11.2 running on a test box. I play with it everyday.

#5

I think you can safely say, you pretty much borked all your codecs/multi-media libraries.

Dare I ask if you have done this
http://tinyurl.com/yejwull

#6

My Yast2 software manger doesn’t look like that but I did "update unconditionally. It rolled a bunch of stuff back and updated others.

Anime fansubs still play fine and MP3s and flash player are working fine.

On my test box DVD playbak is almost flawless but a Athlon 1.6 ghz with one gig of memory can’t keep up with the subtitles.

#7

Sorry, I’m thinking kde4. I didn’t think you had the old UI.
So don’t you have a kde4 login? Where you could do this in Yast?

#8

I have a 4.1 log in.

#9

going to try and update from KDE 4.1

#10

Sorry again. I see you are 11.1
You’ll not have the switcher there either:)

#11

Have you been able to play these dvd’s before?

#12

Yes the same YAST2 interface. I checked.

#13

Not on this system but yes on my 11.2 testbox and on Win XP.

It just seems it cant find /dev/dvd even though the drive is mounted and I can open it in konqueror and see the contents of the DVD.

Which I hadn’t broken Kaffeine.

#14

What if you try

mplayer dvdnav://
#15

flamebait@linux-v5xu:~> mplayer dvdnav://
MPlayer dev-SVN-r30099-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (x86_64)-Packman (C) 2000-2009 MP layer TeamCan’t open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can’t init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Loading protocol-related profile ‘protocol.dvdnav’

Playing dvdnav://.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.1.3
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Can’t stat /dev/dvd
No such file or directory
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd
libdvdnav: vm: failed to open/read the DVD
Couldn’t open DVD device: /dev/dvd (No such file or directory)
No stream found to handle url dvdnav://
Select error: Bad file descriptor

Exiting… (End of file)
flamebait@linux-v5xu:~>

#16

You don’t need to leave this running for long if it works, but just see if it does anything:

mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.mpg
#17

flamebait@linux-v5xu:~> mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.mpg
MPlayer dev-SVN-r30099-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (x86_64)-Packman (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer TeamCan’t open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can’t init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://1.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Can’t stat /dev/dvd
No such file or directory
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd
Couldn’t open DVD device: /dev/dvd (No such file or directory)
No stream found to handle url dvd://1
Select error: Bad file descriptor

Exiting… (End of file)
flamebait@linux-v5xu:~>

#18

Just by way of interest, is this what you were meaning

http://thumbnails7.imagebam.com/6578/d6a48165777006.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/d6a48165777006)

#19

No

But the meta info from properties in Konquer of the mounted DVD says its /dev/sr0. It is a SATA DVD-RW drive.

Is the OS just confused about what and here the DVD drive is?

#20

mplayer /dev/sr0 opened playback. It doesn’t open the DVD menu or play it right but I have video and audio.