Play DVD no work?

[kn4ppst3r]

Anyone else not have the dvd player working out of the box? My fstab is setup for the correct device. I can get gmplayer to play dvds fine

[AboveUnrefined]

It's not even trying to find a DVD when I tell it to play one on my end... Divx video support has been almost excellent (small glitch with black screens) but support for odd formats has been flawless.

[kn4ppst3r]

In sagetv it says that there is no disc in the drive.

If I switch over to a 2nd X session and start mplayer or ogle I can read dvd's from /dev/dvd fine.

You might want to try and compile win32codecs. I use this use flag on all my other gentoo systems and have had no ill problems with any video play back.

I wish the dvd playback would work from the sagetv menu. I guess it's not a huge problem switching to a 2nd X session...but I paid for sagetv and would think that it should work out of the box.

[sulphurlad]

Same thing here.
I thought it was just and issue of ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd, but that did not work.

I just bought it today, for my birthday, as was all excited until I realized how very Beta this thing is. I'm not happy with this at all.

[mruseless]

Same here, but some disks work and some don't. Those that work are unresponsive to any of Sage's controls except stop and play.

Eric in Denver

[stanger89]

I don't think DVD is even supported on linux. No mention of support on the webpage (and I believe that's what I was told when I asked about DVD support on the linux edition). It's a very tricky thing as there are no legal DVD decoders for linux.

[BobPhoenix]

_Demo_ posted in this thread (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=143339&postcount=3) that DVD playback was not supported.

BobP.

[AboveUnrefined]

It's a very tricky thing as there are no legal DVD decoders for linux.

http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/LinDVD.jsp

Unfortunately it's only for OEMs

[stanger89]

Like I said, very tricky. ;) You'll notice the MediaReady supports DVD playback, but you'll notice that's an OEM system with special hardware too.

[AboveUnrefined]

This will all become a bigger headache when the newer standards come out. Good thing people out there try to crack these stupid things.

[sulphurlad]

is it just a matter of installing libdvdcss?
if it is then emerge --search libdvdcss

I don't have my STV box running right now, swapped my hard drive rack back to M$ MCE on my media computer. I only have time to work on it during the weekend after my honey do list is done, and after the wife is asleep.

[kn4ppst3r]

Would it be possible to have the meun in SageTV start mplayer and have it go full screen? and upon exit return to the SageTV menu?

I have everything needed to play DVD's installed on my SageTV box. It just seams stupid to have to lose my 10ft interface to watch DVD's in another Xsession through one of the freely available DVD playback software.

The whole no legal DVD decoders for linux is complete bull. I have a pile of discs for windows DVD play back that have come with video cards or dvd drives. My laptop alone came with 3 copies of WinDVD! I should probably just trash the stack I have since I don't use any of them.

[sulphurlad]

libdvdread & libdvdcss are not legal, the author never got a license from the DVD consotium that created the standard. It is a hack, a revese engineer, IIRC it was DVD John from the 51 state , England, who did the hack. Who has since been shut down.

[AboveUnrefined]

It's up to sage to get them somehow if they want to put it into their linux version. Unless you know an OEM that can even get a quote for the LinDVD that's out there then I think we could be stuck, yes, but there is a legal decoder out there. Isn't there some sort of device with sagelinux out that can play dvd's? they're selling it so I don't think they'd break any laws as they're small enough anyway (i think it was mediaready or something similar)

[sulphurlad]

You could use a regular dvd player, and pipe it down the rca inputs of the capture card, my PVR350 doggle has them. Then you can use the dvd player as normal, extra remote and all, setting up a new source in STV setup. But that would suck for sound, the rca inputs from the dvd player would be stereo, or figure out the Audio / Video sync issue with piping the sound directly to the sound card.

[stanger89]

It's up to sage to get them somehow if they want to put it into their linux version. Unless you know an OEM that can even get a quote for the LinDVD that's out there then I think we could be stuck, yes, but there is a legal decoder out there. Isn't there some sort of device with sagelinux out that can play dvd's? they're selling it so I don't think they'd break any laws as they're small enough anyway (i think it was mediaready or something similar)

The MediaReady5000 plays DVDs, but that's a closed box (for all intents and purposes), and if I understand correctly it uses a Sigma hardware decoder. Which is why it can play DVDs.

[AboveUnrefined]

http://www.provantage.com/sigma-49402~7SIGM00V.htm

So if someone had the brains and time they could figure out how to piggy back something like this into sage?

[stanger89]

http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=9356&highlight=xcard+plugin

No DVD though, my understanding is (at the time at least) the mediaplayer API didn't expose DVD playback.

[SHS]

The problem with Xcard and few other Sigma Designs card that have stardard MPEG Directshow support which dose not support Directshow DVD Navigator so there for there no way to play Retail DVD Disc.
And as for MediaReady5000 plays DVDs only becuase it base on Linux NetStream 2000 drivers

[stanger89]

If I'm not mistaked (which I very well could be) does Tom's plugin doesn't use the directshow filters does it?

[SHS]

That rigth stanger89 he have wirte Custom Hard Code Direct API know as MCI (Media Control Interface)