[nzlug] Xine codecs and Mepis

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, August 8, 2007 9:36 pm, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> Somewhere about Wed, 08-Aug-2007 at 12:50PM +1200 (give or take), Toby
> Collett wrote:
>
> |> This came up a few days ago on this list, to play commercial DVD's
> (i.e.
>
> Ah ha!  In that thread about mixing 64 and 32 bit which I hadn't followed.
>
> |> region locked DVD's etc) you need to install libdvdcss. On ubuntu (and
> maybe
> |> debian) based distros there is a script installed with libdvdread
> |> /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh which will install libdvdcss
> from
>
> It certainly worked for me with Mepis 6.5.  Thank you for that
> information.
>
> It plays everything I've tried on it, but somehow I've managed to end
> up without the hue and saturation controls.  Contrast and brightness
> work fine, but the sliders for hue and saturation have nothing to
> move.  I noticed in my searching that some people had a problem with
> the brightness but that had something to do with MythTV.  Am I correct
> in thinking that would have nothing to do with using DVDs, or is there
> a relationship?
>
> I looked through the Xine wiki but I can't think of how I could search
> for such information.  It could be a problem with the UI, but it could
> be that there's nothing behind the UI to operate on.  I've installed
> all the packages I can find to do with skins.

which video driver is xine playing to? Xv should work best, try forcing it
to Xv.


>
> Ideas on how I should search would be a good alternative to more
> direct information.
>

does xine have a mailing list?

-- 
Nick Rout