Gnome totem and dvd's

[monday90]

Up until recently I have been using Kde and Xine. I never had a problem with dvd playback. With Gnome I am using Totem (with a Xine backend). I find playback to be jumpy and of quite poor quality. My system is reasonable spec AMD64 3400 512 Mb ddr 400. As i have never had any problems before I'm putting this down to software. Can anyone recomend a dvd player and/or backend for gnome? I'm running SLED 10. Many thanks.

[sliding]

I am running Suse 10.1 on AMD Athlon64 Dual Core 4200+
just using the mainboard's graphic chipset.
Kernel 2.6.16.21-0.25-smp x86_64
For several evenings I have been trying to get Video working
but all the time I got errors like: ..no MRL ..incorrect codecs
I tried to install the Packman rpm's, to get xine / totem working.
I installed the latest xine libs but also the latest totem,
lame because I got a dependency error (forget with what)
w32codec, libcaca, libxine1, libxine1-gnome-vfs,
alsa, libdvdcss (with network support) and libdvdcss2.
Everything installed with the Zen installer
xine-lib had to be uninstalled, xine-lib-32bit was kept
But stil it did not go OK
Then I tried to install the new rpm for totem again with yast,
but I got the original version from CD installed although I
selected the new file. Then I thought, OK use the Zen installer
again to install the new totem rpm. After this was done
starting totem it picked up the DVD that was stil in the player
and to my big surprise I could play the DVD.

So probably the order in which things were installed are of influence
for the playere to work or to fail on DVD's
May be first the plugin libs and then the player is the correct order

Hope this can help you as well

[monday90]

Thanks, getting codecs to work can be a little hit and miss. I have no trouble with codecs. My issue is with the quality of playback from Totem in Gnome when compared to Xine in Kde. I was wandering if there was a media player more optimised for Gnome than my current setup. Thanks anyway though.

[sliding]

I got Totem running using Xine as the backend but strange thing is that Xine still
does not pick up the CD and keep complaining about No MRL.

Regarding the quality of the video, I do not have any problem, even with
using the mobo's graphical chipset which is the nVidia Geforce 6100.

For memory I have 1Gb - 128 reserved for VGA and 896 available.
I guess our machines are not that much different.
What's your mobo and graphics

Apart from the video troubles, I guess there's quite some difference in
using KDE or Gnome With earlier versions I used KDE, which has a lot more
options to configure when I compare this to what I can do with Gnome so far.

[monday90]

I have started using gxine as a front end and that seems to run fine. Playback in Totem was awful. Cheers for the help.