Re: playinig DVDs

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:57:19PM +1100, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 13:49, fred smith wrote:
> > Gang:
> > 
> > I'm trying to get a DVD player going on RC1.
> > 
> > I downloaded xine and xine library RPMS, installed 'em without incident.
> > But when I attempt to play any DVD I get the FBI warning screen followed
> > by some error or other about being unable to read (or maybe access) the
> > files.
> > 
> > Now I can mount the thing and see that all the files are there. Clues,
> > anyone?
> > 
> > I also was going to try mplayer so I downloaded the Yarrow RPM for it,
> > but when attempting to install it, it spewed out 10-15 unfulfilled
> > dependencies. Since that machine is not on the net, it wasn't worth the
> > trouble to go find 'em all and transport via sneakernet.
> 
> To Play encrypted DVD's with Xine, you will also need to download and
> install the following libraries.
> 
> libdvdcss
> libdvdnav
> libdvdplay
> libdvdread
> 
> If you were to use APT to download Xine, it should have downloaded these
> as well. I run Xine, plays ALL DVD's very nicely. But, those libraries
> are the key to playing most DVD's. (Plus it will play most other Video
> files too, *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.avi etc)

Thanks, Wolf!

As I said originally, that machien is not networked, so everything I 
move to it is downloaded to another box (not fedora) and sneakernetted
over to it. So using APT or YUM isn't a viable idea.

I grabbed libdvdcss last night. will go look for the others you list, too.

Thanks again!
> 
> 
> Wolf
> 
> 
> 
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