On Thursday 04 January 2007 02:34, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > Hi, Anne > > lets go by parts. As I said before, I do not know why xine is not > reading your dvds. > Fine - I can live with this as it's only a small number of DVDs that are affected. > 1) Xine should be statically linked against ffmpeg, > so it will not be affected by the update. xine-lib comes from extras. > You only need the gui (xine) and the non free part: > xine-lib-moles from freshrpms (equivalent to xine-lib-extras-nonfree > from livna). > These I have. > 2) On the other hand, the update will fix libavcodec, needed by mplayer. > Therefore, you have three programs to try: xine, mplayer and vlc. All of > them use libdvdcss, that you have to install. > That's installed. > 3) mjpegtools 1.9.0 has a bug. It does not recognize -p S > > The command > > 'lavplay -p S filename.avi' > > gives: Unknown playback mode: 'S' > > Version 1.9.1 from cvs (ATrpms) fixes this, and works > with libquicktime 0.9.8. > > http://dl.atrpms.net/all/mjpegtools-devel-1.9.1-14_cvs20061009.fc6.at.i386. >rpm > > I suppose you were using mjpegtools 1.8. > I was, previously. It was uninstalled as a dependency when I removed the livna ffmpeg package. I have downloaded the .tar.gz and had intended compiling it later today, but I'll try the mjpegtools from ATrpms. The link you gave me says 'mjpegtools-devel' - is this right? > 3) dvdrip is based on transcode, and uses mjpegtools for SVCD encoding. > I have used it many times for converting a dvd to avi (compressing with > xvid, in general). > It is very simple to use, but it has to be able to rip the dvd first. > Otherwise, nothing else > can be done. > > It is transcode that forces the upgrade of mjpegtools to 1.9. > And finally, mythtv (a very popular PVR) requires transcode. > I haven't tried any of these things :-) My need is simple, but important to me. I use mjpegtools for processing video from an analogue camcorder to create DVDs. > The main problem is that everything is connected, and must match. > Thanks, Paulo. That's very helpful. Anne
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