kaffeine dvd playback fails

[guymac]

Binary package hint: kaffeine

I have a Dell Inspiron B130 with Kubuntu 8.04 (all packages up-to-date). It has libdvdcss2 (from mediabuntu), libdvdread3 and libdvdnav4.

My wife has a new Dell Inspiron 13 with a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.04.1 and libdvdcss2, etc installed.
The former plays DVDs fine, but in the latter I get the 'libdvdcss is not installed' message.

The former has a read-only DVD drive, the latter a DVD-RW, if that is relevant.

I have tried changing the dvd.device xine engine parameter from /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0 (which it is a symlink to). I have tried region setting to region 1. Originally both machines had no region setting (and the one it has always worked in still has no region set).

I do not think it is actually a decryption issue, since the stderr shows the CSS keys being extracted, and they are written to ~/.dvdcss/.

There is also a message about "demux_wavpack: (open_wv_file:127) open_wv_file: non-seekable inputs aren't supported yet", but it is not that either, since that appears also in the machine where it works.

There are no other log messages before the dvd css message pops up.

It works fine in VLC, but I would like to use kaffeine.

[guymac (guymac-gmail)]

Found the source of the problem by finding the comments for bug #102068. xine-ui needs to be installed for kaffeine to play dvds. I can confirm that dvd playback works immediately installing xine-ui.

[guymac (guymac-gmail)]

On a related note, xine itself cannot play dvd's, some other package is required (xine-dvdnav?).

[guymac (guymac-gmail)]

Actually it is probably the fact that xine-ui installs libxine1-ffmpeg. It should be a dependency for kaffeine.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

libxine1-ffmpeg cannot be installed by default due to patent issues, but starting from Kubuntu 9.10 users will be prompted to install these packages for the extended functionality they offer.