Kaffeine in Kubuntu 8.04 is no longer borked.

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:32, Knapp wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 September 2008 16:27, Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> Knapp wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Rod Lovett <rodlovett at ozemail.com.au>
> >> >
> >> > The real problem here is that that system (kaffiene??) is giving this
> >> > encryption error. That is wrong and misleading.
> >>
> >> You're right - _that_ would seem to be a kaffeine/xine error, and is the
> >> only thing that kaffeine/xine is doing wrong (wrt this situation,
> >> anyway).
> >>
> >> > It can't access the
> >> > disk so it thinks it is the encryption when it is that the disk does
> >> > not exist. Some dev somewhere needs to fix that. I would file and
> >> > error report but I am not even sure where to file it.
> >>
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/230670
> >>
> >> You & Rod should both comment on it (though I'm pretty sure this is not
> >> a HAL problem, as stated - no wonder it isn't getting any attention).
> >>
> >> > I don't think it
> >> > is Kaffiene because you get the error from other players too. Maybe
> >> > xine??
> >>
> >> Again, you're probably right.
> >>
> >> btw, always search bugs.launchpad.net first - you'd have found this, and
> >> the workaround, by mid May. (in fact, a simple google for "kaffeine
> >> encryption error" finds this bug report...)
> >> --
> >> derek
> >
> > I'll come in on this thread if I may, as I can't get Kaffeine to play
> > DVD's either. Whether there is a DVD in the drive or not, I get these
> > complaints about needing libdvdcss to be installed, but it already is.
> > Kaffeine will play audio CD's with not problem. Both the /dev/cdrom, and
> > dev/dvd symlinks are pointing to /dev/scd0 on Kubuntu HH 8.04, and to
> > /dev/hda on GG 7.10, which are both correct.
> >
> > VLC will play DVD's on both 7.10, and 8.04 with no problems, so the
> > optical drive is ok. On 8.04 which I have booted at the mo, VLC is
> > pointing directly to /dev/scd0.
> >
> > I've just installed xine-ui, which has also pulled in libxine1-ffmpeg as
> > a dep, and will try xine directly with DVD's.
> >
> > Watch this space.
> >
> > Nigel.
>
> I am not sure I am following what you are saying but did you change
> the settings in Kaffiene -> xine->media as suggested to /dev/dvd1? It
> should fix the problem.
>
>
>
> --
> Douglas E Knapp

Well no, because unless you have more than 1 DVD optical drive /dev/dvd1 does 
not exist, and as I only have one optical drive capable of playing DVD's on 
this machine, I only have /dev/dvd, which is a symlink pointing to /dev/scd0.

As I said on a previous post, VLC will play DVD's with no problem, but 
Kaffeine appears to be having some problems accessing the optical drive to 
play DVD's. I've installed the xine-ui, and xine will play DVD's using the 
same settings for the xine engine in Kaffeine, although with some weird 
problems, which are on another thread.

Nigel.