Re: FC5 Totem and DVD

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On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 09:48 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> 
> I tried ogle and mplayer. They work, after a fashion, but not with every 
> DVD title out there.
> 
> I use vlan. It plays everything I can get from a studio.
> 
> But--it will /not/ play the DVD's that I burn on another machine. (Roxio 
> Easy DVD Builder on Windows XP SP2.) Perhaps the MPEG-2 encoding is at 
> issue.
> 
> I have searched (through Google and elsewhere) for decent open-source 
> DVD authoring tools. I have found none.
> 
> Basically, I'm happy if my home-burnt DVD's can play on consumer-aimed 
> home DVD players. And yes, they can. They just won't play on my Fedora 
> boxes.
> 
have you tried dvdauthor ?
It builds dvds that play on fedora as well as on the dvd players.
I cannot answer about playing on windows based machines though.


> Temlakos
> 


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