On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:19 -0500, Skylar Thompson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:03:52PM -0800, HARPER, WILLIAM IT2 (SW/AW) wrote: > > I am new to the Linux world and I currently have Fedora Core 2 loaded and am > > trying to get my DVD player to work and I down loaded > > mplayer-1.0-33_pre4rhfc2.at.i386.rpm and am unable to get it to work. Can > > someone tell me the installation procedures so I can get it to work or of > > another DVD player that will work. > > I fine MPlayer (http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu) and Ogle > (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~dvd/) suit my needs just fine. Between the > two of them, they've managed to play every movie (either on disk or DVD) > I've thrown at them. They run fine in both FreeBSD and Linux, which makes > me happy too. :) Whatever player you use, may need to get plugins/libraries from non-US sites such as livna.org or some of the freshrpms.net group (see http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/freshrpms-list) to play commercial DVDs. Fedora Core packages will never include these due to patent/copyright issues, and take into account your local legal situation. Phil
