Totem not playing DVD's

[Per Bjornsson]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 16:29, Lee Connell wrote:
> I installed Totem via yum, I also installed libdvdcss from rpm.pbone.net and 
> I still can't play dvd's, it complains that I don't have the appropriate 
> plugins available, has anyone gotten totem to work?  Any ideas to help me 
> get it working as I'm excited that fedora/redhat finally added a dvd/media 
> player to the distro.

For DMCA and software patent reasons Red Hat can't distribute a free DVD
player. However, Totem with the Gstreamer backend (which is what is
included in Fedora Core 3) should be reasonably easy to upgrade to work
as a DVD player. What you need is the DVD reading plugin for Gstreamer;
a repository of Gstreamer stuff for FC2 is available here:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/fedora/2/i386/SRPMS.gst/
(the gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd-0.8.5-0.lvn.1.2.i386.rpm package looks
pretty promising...)

I would think that these RPMs would work on FC3 as well; unfortunately I
don't have a DVD player on the laptop that is currently running an FC3
prerelease so I can't really check sanely. I'd guess that FC3 packages
will show up once FC3 is released.

Instructions for installation of non-included Gstreamer stuff on Fedora
in general, using the upstream packages, are here: 
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora.html
This repository is designed to be compatible with Fedora Core +
Fedora.us. There are also repos for the additional dependencies
available from that site.

Cheers,
Per

-- 
Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University