[mythtv-users] Re: Anyone using xine or ogle with Mythtv?

[Ann Patterson]

Xine runs just fine with Myth, dvd menus and all. Of the 3 that I tried 
(mplayer, xine, and ogle), xine seems to be the best choice for dvd 
playing. 

Mplayer doesn't support dvd menus, from what I can tell.

Ogle is very simple to use, and mostly works, but I found that I couldn't 
always get the commands to do what they were supposed to do. Ogle also 
doesn't have native lirc support. Life can get interesting if you're 
trying to run multiple apps with irxevent.

To get xine running, install xine and xine-ui from rpms (apt-get install 
xine xine-ui). 

Run myth, and go to the settings for  dvd playback. Select xine.

Play a dvd. Note that xine uses the keys on the *keypad* for navigating 
the menus. This had me confused for awhile.

Press g to bring up the xine settings menu. Set things the way you want 
them.

Press q to quit zine.

Once you've verified that xine works, get it working with lirc. From the 
command line, do this:

$ xine --keymap=lirc > lircrc-test

This produces a lircrc file that has everything filled out except the 
remote control buttons. Strip out the many things that you don't need, and 
map the rest to your remote buttons. Copy the contents of this file into 
the .lircrc file in your home directory. Note that this is a different 
file than the .mythtv/lircrc that is used for myth's native lirc support. 
It's okay to have both files.



> Now that I have my MythTV box running, I started 
> playing around with the different options. Realized 
> that MythDVD doesn't support DVD menues. 
> 
> After doing a search on the list, it appears my 
> options are either xine or ogle. 
> 
> From what I've read, xine is something of a hack to 
> work Myth and DVD menus, which leaves ogle. One of the 
> posts that I read is that while ogle supports menus, 
> the poster wasn't sure if it supported some DVD 
> playback options such as FF or skip. 
> 
> Anyhow, has anyone gotten ogle to work to their 
> satisfaction? If so, could you please post 
> instructions on how you got it running on your box. I 
> imagine it's a matter of pulling the install down and 
> modifying the player settings from mplayer to ogle. 
> I'm sure there is LOTs of detail that I have missed or 
> would have missed if I performed this install solo. 

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