playinig DVDs

[Wolfgang Gill]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 00:42, fred smith wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:57:19PM +1100, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 13:49, fred smith wrote:
> > > Gang:
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to get a DVD player going on RC1.
> > > 
> > > I downloaded xine and xine library RPMS, installed 'em without incident.
> > > But when I attempt to play any DVD I get the FBI warning screen followed
> > > by some error or other about being unable to read (or maybe access) the
> > > files.
> > > 
> > > Now I can mount the thing and see that all the files are there. Clues,
> > > anyone?
> > > 
> > > I also was going to try mplayer so I downloaded the Yarrow RPM for it,
> > > but when attempting to install it, it spewed out 10-15 unfulfilled
> > > dependencies. Since that machine is not on the net, it wasn't worth the
> > > trouble to go find 'em all and transport via sneakernet.
> > 
> > To Play encrypted DVD's with Xine, you will also need to download and
> > install the following libraries.
> > 
> > libdvdcss
> > libdvdnav
> > libdvdplay
> > libdvdread
> > 
> > If you were to use APT to download Xine, it should have downloaded these
> > as well. I run Xine, plays ALL DVD's very nicely. But, those libraries
> > are the key to playing most DVD's. (Plus it will play most other Video
> > files too, *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.avi etc)
> 
> Thanks, Wolf!
> 
> As I said originally, that machien is not networked, so everything I 
> move to it is downloaded to another box (not fedora) and sneakernetted
> over to it. So using APT or YUM isn't a viable idea.
> 
> I grabbed libdvdcss last night. will go look for the others you list, too.
> 
> Thanks again!
> > 
> > 
> > Wolf
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Just a small note, you DON'T have to mount the DVD to have Xine play it.
Xine will do that automatically. (Just from what I noticed in your
original email).

Wolf