On Monday 12 March 2007, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > You don't happen to have some stale VIDEO_TS.* files in your root > directory, do you? Yes, I do mean the / directory, but maybe you should > also check your home, current, etc dirs. I had an issue with xine not > playing the dvd when a file with such name resides in / (don't ask me how > it got there). Though I still don't understand that behavior of xine, > renaming the file to something not-dvd-specific removed the problem. > > At the time I was too busy to investigate and file a bug report, but maybe > you have the same issue. As I understand, for some reason xine seems to > look for VIDEO_TS.IFO and .VOB files in / directory when you click on the > "dvd" button, and if it finds one, tries to play it (unsuccessfully in my > case), ignoring the actual dvd in the drive. It then reports a problem with > the "mrt" and (sometimes) crashes. > > I have not tried mplayer. It does not support on-screen menus, so I use > xine for dvds, and mplayer for everything else. :-) > > Oh, btw, this happend on a FC4 machine, xine was (and still is) v0.99.4. > Have not tried to reproduce the problem, was happy to eliminate it once and > avoid it since. :-) > Nothing obvious there. I have to go out in a few minutes, but I'll check more thoroughly later. Anne
