After a long hiatus, I'm back to trying to finish customizing our NAS; life with kid means your extra time doesn't always get spent the way you'd like, and I've migrated to a new laptop running ubuntu en route, I should write about that, too.
Tagged entries: "howto"
Want to get DVDs playing on the laptop that is running gentoo that I'll only have to use for a few more days before I get a new shiny (purple!) one. I know, makes no sense.. but hey, learning is good, right?
- Use xine-ui. It got the farthest first.
- Make sure your region is set
- Go through the few hoops you need to get raw i/o working. I pegged/tanked RAM w/o raw access -- every player segfaulted as a result (mplayer, xine, vlc). Use the raw device.
- If it's an encrypted DVD (and you have libdvdcss installed), I found that I needed to change something in my environment to get it to correctly decrypt the disk:
export DVDCSS_METHOD=disc-- I did it on the command line since I was just testing. Setting this finally let the DVD play.. with dropped frames all over the place.. but still.. progress! - And last, but not least, the simplest instruction from xine's help: change the niceness level of xine..
nice --5 xine
And poof! movie! with menu! rock on
So, in starting to set up bootcamp, I totally managed to f something up! (Yes, I can even break a Mac). I tried the usual turn off / turn on the machine, and CRAP! the CD is still in the drive, and it HAS NO BUTTONS. Eject is totally software driven.
Thankfully, someone already took the time to list all of the interesting things you should try to get your CD back. Number 3 did the trick.
- The iTunes eject button
- Disk Utility ...
- Hold down mouse button at startup
- Hold down C key at startup
- Start up into Open Firmware ...
- Start up in Target FireWire mode ...
- Start up from another machine
- Take your machine to an Apple Store
ISO, CDR, and CDRW in Linux [cpqlinux.com]
An old page, but full of handy tips (more like quick references) nonetheless.
Just in case, it's also here. [waybackmachine.org]
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