[K12OSN] play dvd? (xposted to k12list and scosug)

[anthony baldwin]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> Hi,
> Someone broke into my home last wednesday and stole my iBook (and a 
> jeweled dagger..and don't get me started on the data I lost...all my 
> curriculae from last year, which I had backed up to the school's 
> network, but not elsewhere, and I've left that school, and it was all in 
> appleworks formats.).
> The iBook was my only dvd player, ,so I purchased a samsung dvd/cdrw 
> drive and installed it on my Fedora 1 based K12box (k12 4.0.1).
> 
> 
> Anyway, when I insert a dvd, it mounts at /mnt/cdrom.  I can burn cds on 
> this drive and it reads the dvd, but I seem to be unable to play the 
> dvd.  I tried with xine and mplayer.  Do I need to mount it at /mnt/dvd? 
>  I tried to create a directory in /mnt for that,  but then received a 
> msg that there was no entry in /etc/fstab...so I tried to make one, but 
> did not know what values to give it (someone want to share theirs?).
> 
> I was also confused what decoder/codec thingy to use in mplayer, sine 
> there are about 30 to choose from.
> I'd like to play my dvds.  Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 


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Anthony Baldwin
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