[kde-linux] Kaffeine won't play a 60mn DVD film

[John Meyer]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 Nov 2007, john d. herron wrote:
>> Our US distributor sent me a commercial DVD copy of a documentary film
>> he cut from an original master tape of ours.
>> I'm a greenhorn when it comes to the technical aspects of such media.
>> Placing the DVD disc into my CD/DVD drive caused the system to suggest
>> Kaffeine as the application to open/view/run its contents. I followed
>> the suggestion and here's what Kaffeine tells me:
>>
>> "xine: couldn't find demux for >dvd:///dev/hdd<
>> 05:22:37 PM: xine: cannot find input plugin for MRL [dvd:///dev/hdd]
>> 05:22:37 PM: xine: input plugin cannot open MRL [dvd:///dev/hdd]
>> 05:22:06 PM: xine: found input plugin  : DVD Navigator
>> 05:14:08 PM: input_file: File not found: >/media/cdrom0/FILM Peter Brook
>> - The Mahabharata 1.avi<
>> 05:14:08 PM: xine: found input plugin  : file input plugin
>> 05:11:39 PM: xine: couldn't find demux for >dvd:///dev/hdd<
>> 05:11:38 PM: xine: found input plugin  : DVD Navigator
>> 05:10:04 PM: xine: couldn't find demux for >dvd:///dev/hdd<
>> 05:10:03 PM: xine: found input plugin  : DVD Navigator"
>>
>> Is the DVD (or my Kaffeine) faulty ? 
> 
> Neither :-)
> 
>> or am I overlooking something ? 
>> Any help will be thankfully appreciated
> 
> Almost certainly it is because you don't have the dvd plugins and codecs.  I 
> don't know where ubuntu have their non-free stuff, but that's where you will 
> find them.  Start by looking for libdvdcss and libdvdnav (on my system that's 
> libdvdnav4).  I also have libdvdread and libdvdread-utils.
> 
> The problem is that licensing issues mean that many packages like this can't 
> be distributed in the distro.  Each distro has a place or two, not owned or 
> controlled by the distro for legal reasons, where you have to go to get them.  
> This is largely because the legal aspect of owning/using them differs from 
> country to country.
> 
> Anne
> 


On Suse it's the packman repository, and I've never had any problems
with video formats.