DVD playing on Linux

[Karl Larsen]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Les Mikesell wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 13:41 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>     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.
>>>       
>> That's way too complicated.  Undo whatever mess you have,
>> execute the one-line instruction near the top of:
>>  http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html#Core4
>>     
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> Agreed.
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>   
>> and:
>>  yum install xine mplayer totem vlc
>> then use whichever you like.
>>     
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> Just to be sure, don't you want to use totem-xine?  AFAICT, using
> totem will install the stock totem player from core and not the one
> built by livna.  Maybe for DVD's it doesn't matter, but to play files
> using the win32 codecs I thought I needed to use the xine backend for
> totem (or the gstreamer-pitfdll plugin, which I use on FC4 but haven't
> tried yet in FC5).
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> I'd be happy to find I don't need totem-xine, as it crashes for me at
> nearly every exit on FC5.
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>   
    I agree with you. I got all that codex stuff and put it in 
/usr/lib/win98/ and that was supposed to work. It doesn't on FC4 I KNOW 
it's the stuff they put in the DVD to make it hard to copy that is 
causing the problem because I have a DVD that is a policical add MPlayer 
plays that just fine.

    It seems that no-one knows how to get around this problem.

Karl

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