On Thursday 13 September 2007 01:10, Art wrote: > Hi Nigel Things are going good. > Hay where can I find the windows codecs package. > THANKS FOR THE HELP. > Art. The w32codecs package isn't on the Livna list for Fedora 7 (i386), but installing the ffmpeg package should do. Just do a yum install ffmpeg That will pull in the ffmpeg-libs package as well. Hoping that works. Nigel. > > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:06 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 17:03, Art wrote: > > > Hi I need some help setting up the mPlayer to play DVD's. I can bring > > > it up to the play list. On the list it dose not show the DVD. How do I > > > get to my DVD drive and what plugins do I need to install. > > > Thanks > > > Art Giles > > > > Hi Art. Hows it going? > > > > Where did you get Mplayer from? Freshrpms, or Livna? You don't only need > > Mplayer, but also the w32codecs package. > > > > Make sure that Mplayer is setup to access your DVD drive. > > > > For example I have 3 optical drives (cdrom, cdwriter, and dvdrom) on one > > of my machines. When you open Mplayer, at the extreme left of the window > > with the controls on it there is a button. Click on that, which will > > bring up the preferences window. Click on "misc", and it will show you > > where it's trying to access your DVD rom drive from. In my case it's > > pointing to /dev/cdrom2, but I have 3 drives, and that is the correct one > > for the DVD rom drive. > > > > On my other machine I have a combination drive (cdrom/cdwriter/dvdrom). > > If I look at /dev in my file manager I have 3 entries, cdrom1, cdrw1, and > > dvd1. All these are links pointing to the block device hdd. > > > > You need to make sure that what is there in Mplayers preferences > misc > > is pointing to the correct link in /dev for the DVD device. > > > > An alternative for playing DVD's is the vlc package, but you will also > > need to install the libdvdcss package as well ( that may be libdvdcss2), > > and may well still need to check that it's accessing your drive correctly > > in /dev. > > > > All the best, and may the force be with you. > > > > Nigel.
