How to watch DVD in openSUSE 11.1 (KDE) ?

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#1

Had read many of the forum’s post and finally managed to watch a dvd in smplayer.

However, for the dvd that I am veiwing,

  • when viewed using a dvd player on television, there is menu to select which chapter/episode to watch.
  • when viewed in smplayer, the video comes out directly and I suspect not all the available videos is played.

What is the “correct/preferred” way of viewing dvd in openSUSE (computer), so that it is the same as watching dvd on television.

#2

Right click on the playing screen
Look for option to root menu

Try kaffeine I think it plays the way you want. Packman version remember!
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

#3

Hi caf4926, thanks for the tip.

Kaffeine still tells me that it cannot play dvd due to xine issues and points me to XINE - openSUSE

in turn points me to PackMan :: Package details for xine-lib which contains a 1click install that has a missing package:(

anyway, managed to get Kaffeine working and playing the DVD eventually.

Next task, any idea how to make a copy of the DVD in openSUSE? :slight_smile:

#4

Next task, any idea how to make a copy of the DVD in openSUSE?

k9copy from packman PackMan :: Package details for k9copy

Andy

#5

agreed, excellent choice

#6

Know it sounds weird but I’ve never copy any DVD before.

  • Comes to think of it , besides k9copy that both recommended, can K3B do the job?

Read somewhere that copying/ripping DVD is rather difficult due to protection.

  • Can I assume that copying DVD is just like copying CDs, basically just a few clicks of the GUI?
  • As to ripping, does this mean copying the contents of DVD into harddisk? How can this be done?

Thanks in advance for the advise :slight_smile:

#7

Really it’s a matter of figure it out. We can’t discuss copy protection.

Another application you could look at is Dvd95, also from Packman repo. I have not used it but it looks simpler from what I can see.

k3b has a copyDVD option but it will not accomplish some of the tasks possible by the other 2 applications recommended.

#8

Noted, will respect the rules of not discussing copy protection in this forum.

Thanks for the help.

#9

Sorry for hijacking this thread a bit, but I got sort of the same problem, with 1 little extra. Now I can watch DVD’s if I start kaffeine as root. I added myself to the group cdrom, but it didn’ help.

#10

seems like i had to add myself to the disk group as well.

#11

You should not need to run such apps as root.

#12

I know, thats why I wanted a solution. I just gave it a try as root, since it kept nagging about not enough permissions to reas /dev/dvd. As note earlier, adding myself to the cdrom AND the disk group resolved this.

#13

I suspect you have an update problem. Post the terminal output of:

zypper lr --details