[TriLUG] Mandrake 8.2 and xine

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 09:46, Geoff Purdy wrote:
> 
> > You probably need the css plugin.  Try the Penguin Liberation Front
> > website (http://plf.zarb.org/).  
> 
> Thanks, I'll give that a try.  It would be nice if xine worked for DVD's out 
> of the box, but I'm sure there are a slew of legal issues associated with css 
> that Mandrake would prefer nto avoid.  Many of the links I see 
> referenced in FAQ's and mailing list archives have disappeared, again perhaps 
> due to legal issues.
> 
The nicest thing about the PLF is that you can use the standard
Mandrake install tools to install everything.  I've seen reports
on the Cooker mailing list of just what you want to do working
perfectly with their stuff.
 

> I agree that ogle works nicely and is much easier to set up.  I do have a 
> handful of complaints about ogle however:
> - maximum sound volume is low compared to RealPlayer and XMMS, making it 
> difficult to hear dialog in DVD's 

Hmm.. I haven't noticed this.  Try bringing up some other mixer
program (I use kmix a lot) and adjusting the volume there.  Generally,
a program will only adjust one volume control (i.e. pcm) when the
global volume control needs to be adjusted too.

> - many controls (FF, RW, pause) don't seem to have any effect 

Again, I haven't noticed this.  But I mainly have used just the menus.

> - the full screen view "takes over" the display and I have to ctrl-alt-F1 to 
> a console and kill the process in order to get use of my X session back

Really?  You can't just press "f" and have it switch between full
screen and non-full screen?

> Granted these may be mis-configurations for my system or lack of knowledge on 
> my part, not ogle's fault .  I'm hoping that if I can get xine working, it 
> won't have these problems (or at least have a different set of issues).

Well, I wish you luck.  

Tanner
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