On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 13:41 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > I have burned hours of time trying to get FC4 to play a simple > commercial DVD in my DVD player on this computer. I can put the DVD in > my laptop with Windows XP and it automatically comes up with the movie > starting. > > I realize the movie industry has been very bad about things and the > work towards getting a DVD reader for Linux is being done in Europe away > from the goons in Hollywood. > > Totem comes up saying I don't have "libdvdcss" so it can't work. > Xine says it can't even get to the DVD because /dev/dvd/ is root only. > > Yes I tried to yum the lib and it can't find it. I have done > everything the good web page > > > http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html > > has done I have done. Still it all does not work. I have loaded Totem, > Xine and Mplayer and all three do not work. > > Karl > yum libdvd* and dvd* from the livna repo and you should be happy with the results.
