On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 06:17 -0700, Michael Peters wrote: > On Thursday, April 06, 2006, at 06:11AM, antonio montagnani <antonio.montagnani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >When I use Totem and I want to play a DVD a get the message that it is > >impossible to reproduce this kind of file as an appropriate plugin is > >missing. > > > >What am I missing (and why it is not loaded as standard, playing a DVD > >seems to me a standard operation also for a non-geek-user??) > > To play a DVD with totem - you need > > gstreamer-plugins-ugly > > use the rpm.livna.org repository or gstreamer.org repository. > You also need libdvdcss > > It still won't play them from the menu though. Try: > > totem DVD:// > > That works for me - though the video/audio is choppy and not in sync. > > Back in FC3 - totem w/ gstreamer worked decently - but due to changes in gstreamer and totem, it is kind of broken right now. > > You can use ogle (I think it is in livna) or mplayer. > xmms also plays DVDs and almost perfectly.
