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[icedtea]

just want to ask you guys...hmm the owner of gxine and xine is root... and the permissions are : -rw-rw-r--

m wondering. why when im in my usermode, "me" i cnt play gxine and xine in vcds... but when i change my X to root, d vcd opens but with slow moving motion... any idea? hmm

1. is it bcoz my vidcard driver is still in vesa?? ?
2. will it be effective if il change the owner to "me" ?

[techieMoe]

How did you install Xine? Execute permissions should have been given to users other than root. If not, you do not need to change the owner of xine and gxine, simply change the permissions to allow other users to execute them, like this:

su -
Password&#58;<root password>
chmod 755 /usr/bin/xine 
chmod 755 /usr/bin/gxine

Obviously, you may need to change "/usr/bin" to whatever directory your links are in.

[icedtea]

it is included when i installed slack 10.2 ...

when a vcd is insrted and i started xine hre is the output in command line":

bash-3.00$ gxine
wine/module: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x40bade36 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
wine/module: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x40bade36 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
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cn u figure out if there is error?

[techieMoe]

The error you're getting means you don't have the correct video codec installed for WMV version 9. It has nothing to do with permissions. Most distributions don't include codecs like this because of legal issues. You should be able to download the win32 codecs from the Mplayer website.

[icedtea]

sir where cn i find win32 codec? i cnt find it in mplayer.org.. any links? thnks newbie here//

[techieMoe]

sir where cn i find win32 codec? i cnt find it in mplayer.org.. any links? thnks newbie here//

http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html

Look for the "Codecs" section.

[icedtea]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR... TIL NEXT TIME...

[icedtea]

hmm just to be sure.. ive remove .gxine and .xine in my home... then i xine-check, here was the result ::


[ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.4.31)
[ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support
[ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.
[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
[ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH
[ good ] found /usr/bin/xine-config in your PATH
[ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.2 exists.
[ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_flac.so
[ good ] found input plugins
[ good ] found demux plugins
[ good ] found decoder plugins
[ good ] found video_out plugins
[ good ] found audio_out plugins
[ good ] skin directory /usr/share/xine/skins exists.
[ good ] found logo in /usr/share/xine/skins
[ good ] I even found some skins.
[ hint ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdd, but that's unreadable.
Looks, like you have a /dev/cdrom device that points to your CD-ROM
drive. That is good, as xine uses this device to read VCDs or audio CDs
by default.
However, you don't have permission to read from this device, so you
won't be able to use it, at least not with this account, that's bad...
Most people nowadays fix this by using a 'cdrom' group:
make sure, that you have a group named 'cdrom', become root and type
chgrp cdrom /dev/hdd
chmod g+r /dev/hdd
Now you only have to make sure you're in the cdrom group. The command
id -a
(executed as normal user) should tell you. Some systems add users to
the 'cdrom' group when they log in from a local console. If yours
doesn't, you'll have to add yourself to that group using your system's
user management tools...
press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/hdd, no r/w permissions
Looks, like you have a /dev/dvd device that points to your DVD-ROM
drive. That is good, as xine uses this device to read DVDs by
default.
However, you don't have read/write permissions for this device, so you
won't be able to use it, at least not with this account, that's bad...
If you're wondering about write permissions: they're needed to set
some DVD-specific modes on the drive.
Many people nowadays fix this by using a 'cdrom' group:
make sure, that you have a group named 'cdrom', become root and type
chgrp cdrom /dev/hdd
chmod g+rw /dev/hdd
Now you only have to make sure you're in the cdrom group. The command
id -a
(executed as normal user) should tell you. Some systems add users to
the 'cdrom' group when they log in from a local console. If yours
doesn't, you'll have to add yourself to that group using your system's
user management tools...
press <enter> to continue...

good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays.
That means xine will have to do color space transformation and scaling
in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
X server will help here.
If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays.
That means xine will have to do color space transformation and scaling
in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
X server will help here.
If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support...
XVideo is an X server extension introduced by XFree86 4.x. This
extension provides access to hardware accelerated color space
conversion and scaling, which gives a great performance boost.
If you have a fast (>1GHz) machine, you may be able to watch all
kinds of video, anyway. You will waste lots of CPU cycles, though...
press <enter> to continue...
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is this normal? coz i hvnt started xine yet...?