On 8/9/05, Billy Masopust <linux343546@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello! > My experience with playing DVD's in Linux (any distro) has been a real > battle. There are some people out there that claim they were able to play > DVD's out of the box, but conveniently, none of them can explain how they > got it to work. I do know for sure you need a dvd decrypter, which can be > found on either freshmeat downloads or sourceforge. I apologize for not > being able to remember the names of the packages. There are also a few > other packages you need, like a menu reader and a playback package. Also, a > VERY good source for information on DVD playback in Linux is a web site at > http://www.linuxquestions.org and search for the issue you are having. This > web site is a WEALTH of information. I hope this helps you out. > > Billy > > >From: Mark Knights <naron@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >To: Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: Playing DVD's > >Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:38:00 +1000 > > > >Hi all, > > > >I thought the Totem Movie player would be able to show DVD's but when I put > >a DVD in my DVD ROM it is not giving me the option to play the disc and > >when I hit the play disc command under the movie menue it tells me that; > > > >Totem could not play 'dvd://'. > >No URI handler implemented for "dvd://" > > > >Do I need to add a plugin or there are more sinister forces at work? > > > >Cheers > > > >Mark > > Making Fedora play DVD's is not that difficult: 1. Add the livna-repo to your yum configuration (http://rpm.livna.org) (how to do: see the site) 2. In a terminal enter (as root): yum install xine\* libdvd\* Now you can watch DVD's with Xine or even mplayer. Totem seems to have problems while it's built upon xine-libs Bart
