On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 16:36 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 06 April 2006 14:38, antonio montagnani wrote: > > Jeff > > > > I think that it doesn't make any sense to have : > > Xmms > > Mplayer > > Xine > > Totem > > > > installed, as here. > > Any application should play a DVD out of the box. My two cents.... > > Few would argue, but in reality legality matters. You can, in fact, play a > DVD in most of those applications, providing it is non-encrypted, but the > movie industry being what it is, you don't find many of those. Grab the > plugins from the repositories recommended to you. I did it the easy way - I > elected to use xine from freshrpms and it offered me all the plugins I needed > to do the job. One automatic installation with yum. > > Anne I actually have an officially released unencrypted DVD at home. I first tried to play it on a Windows machine with a DXR2 DVD kit, but it wouldn't play, I thought it was defective so I returned it and got another one. After it wouldn't play, I figured there must be more to it, so I took the DVD to FutureShop and tried it in some standalone DVD players. The only ones that would play it were made by Toshiba, so I bought one. I would hope that most DVD players would play it now, I bought a portable DVD/Navigation system and it will play data DVD's with vidX, DivX and MP3's, regular DVD's and audio CD's it even has a built in FM transmitter so I can listen to it over the stereo in my truck, when I am not using it for navigation.
