On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:24 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 6/2/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 06:14, Karl Larsen wrote: > > > > > > > I think my DAY of trying to get a commercial DVD movie to play will > > > be useful. I have watched whole movies on my FC4 computer. Here is what > > > works. You must yum totem and xine as a pair from Europe and also from > > > Europe get the Codex files. These 3 things are required and they are all > > > from Europe. When these things are all intalled use totem to diplay the > > > movie. Xine will not work and neither will mplayer. > > > > > > > Follow the instruction link at the top of this page: > > http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html > > to do a one-line rpm command, after which you > > can 'yum install xine mplayer vlc libdvd*' and > > use the player of your choice. > > > > Thaks for the advice, but I've tried it all: > > [root@Watson ~]# rpm -qa | grep dvd > libdvdcss-1.2.9-2.lvn5 > libdvdread-0.9.4-4.lvn5 > dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-6.2.1 > mythdvd-0.19-122.rhfc5.at > libdvdnav-0.1.10-2.lvn5 > libdvdplay-1.0.1-4.lvn5 > I haven't done that much with FC5 versions of things yet but with earlier versions I've had better luck with vlc than the other players. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
