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 >
