[haiku] Re: SMPlayer on Haiku: DVD playing and media streaming
- From: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:28:31 -0700
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:56:29AM +0000, Giovanni Mugnai wrote:
>
> Can you try to play a vob file from DVD using Haiku MediaPlayer?
> Let me know.
Sorry about my newbieness in this area... what's a vob file?
>
> > Now I've done something else that again prevents SMPlayer's
> > panel appearing, even though the program is running -- dunno
> > what. I'll wait until I've got a newer Haiku rev installed, in case that's
> > a problem.
>
> If you start SMPlayer from Desktop, it delete some tmp files (lock tmp
> file) which should solve this.
I tried that when the lockup happened. Didn't work. I'll check those
files, though.
>
Meantime, I did get the necessary libraries installed in Linux (in
the end, only libdvdcss was missing, but I wouldn't have known from
all the "helpful" advice around (:-/). And the same dvds play flawlessly
in MoviePlayer. The DVD Menus are hardly perfect there, either -- when
I try to select an episode, the app just freezes and has to be killed!
I *can* select scenes, though -- go figure...
Thanks,
-- Pete --
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