Kaffeine "quirkiness" in karmic

[MoeNeigh]

When I try to play a commercial DVD in kaffeine in karmic, I get the message: "cannot find input plugin for MRL [dvd:/]". After experimenting, I came up with this workaround -- File > Open URL. In the box that comes up it use the "dvd:/" from the error message, and type the url for my DVD drive: "dvd:/dev/sr0". The DVD will then play. Important libraries such as libdvdcss2 and libddread4 are, of course, installed. So with the right "path", the DVDs do play.

Also, under settings, there is only one menu option: "configure shortcuts". So I can't "permanently" tell kaffeine where to pull up the dvd. There is no preferences option. So I always have to type in the path.

Another "quirk", bug, or shortcoming: the next chapter shortcut (pagedn) and the previous chapter shortcut (pageup) don't work. I have not gotten past this. I tried to configure a custom shortcut, but kaffeine will then just freeze and quit when I try to use it. Shift + right arrow (move ahead one minute) and shift + left arrow (move back one minute) were working, but now do nothing.

Does anyone have a "preferences" or similar menu option with kaffeine -- and can you make settings that will "stick"?

Lately, I have been using VLC more and more. It works much better, but I also have to let it know that my DVD drive is /dev/sr0. A preference for that path won't stick, either. Its shortcuts do work, however. It also has a nice crop option (5:4 for my 1280x1024 display) for video display, if desired.

[Rog131]

Re: Kaffeine "quirkiness" in karmic

That "cannot find input plugin for MRL [dvd:/]" or dvd:/dev/sr0 problem earlier > Topic: Multimedia Problem: Maybe you don't have enough rights...(e.g: no disc in drive)


Shortly:

Here the 'buntu is making the "wrong" symlinks, konsole:

 ls -l /dev/dvd*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-11-08 21:48 /dev/dvd1 -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-11-08 21:48 /dev/dvdrw1 -> sr0

They should be:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-11-08 21:48 /dev/dvd -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-11-08 21:48 /dev/dvdrw -> sr0

The fix, at here, is told by the /etc/udev/rules.d/README:

The files in this directory are read by udev(7) and used when events
are performed by the kernel. The udev daemon watches this directory
with inotify so that changes to these files are automatically picked
up, for this reason they must be files and not symlinks to another
location as in the case in Debian.

Packages do not generally install rules here, this directory is for
local rules. If you want to override behaviour of package-supplied
rules, which can be found in /lib/udev/rules.d, you can do one of
two things:

1) Write your own rules in this directory that assign the name,
symlinks, permissions, etc. that you want. Pick a number higher
than the rules you want to override, and yours will be used.

2) Copy the file from /lib/udev/rules.d and edit it here; you
should generally only do this if you want to prevent a program
from being run.


If the ordering of files in this directory are not important to you,
it's recommended that you simply name your files "descriptive-name.rules"
such that they are processed AFTER all numbered rules in both this
directory and /lib/udev/rules.d and thus override anything set there.

=>

ALT + F2 and: kdesudo kate /etc/udev/rules.d/71-persistent-cd.rules
and droping there:

# DVDRAM_GSA-4165B (pci-0000:00:09.0-scsi-1:0:0:0)
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:09.0-scsi-1:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="dvd", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:09.0-scsi-1:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="dvdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"

boot

Now, konsole:

ls -l /dev/dvd*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-11-08 22:40 /dev/dvd -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-11-08 22:40 /dev/dvd1 -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-11-08 22:40 /dev/dvdrw -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-11-08 22:40 /dev/dvdrw1 -> sr0

Now the media players are seeing the correct device (/dev/dvd -> sr0)

[MoeNeigh]

Re: Kaffeine "quirkiness" in karmic

Thanks, Rog131. Kaffeine now recognizes the DVD "automagically". In VLC, though, I still have to type the path in or type it over some gobbledygook like this:

x� (� `� X� �} h�

to get VLC to recognize the DVD. If I set the "default disc device" preference by leaving it blank, then I have to still type "/dev/sr0" in the blank. But, unlike kaffeine, at least I can use VLC's keyboard shortcuts.