FC5 Totem and DVD

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 06:17 -0700, Michael Peters wrote:
>  On Thursday, April 06, 2006, at 06:11AM, antonio montagnani <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >When I use Totem and I want to play a DVD a get the message that it is
> >impossible to reproduce this kind of file as an appropriate plugin is
> >missing.
> >
> >What am I missing (and why it is not loaded as standard, playing a DVD
> >seems to me a standard operation also for a non-geek-user??)
> 
> To play a DVD with totem - you need
> 
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly
> 
> use the rpm.livna.org repository or gstreamer.org repository.
> You also need libdvdcss
> 
> It still won't play them from the menu though. Try:
> 
> totem DVD://
> 
> That works for me - though the video/audio is choppy and not in sync.
> 
> Back in FC3 - totem w/ gstreamer worked decently - but due to changes in gstreamer and totem, it is kind of broken right now.
> 
> You can use ogle (I think it is in livna) or mplayer.
> 
xmms also plays DVDs and almost perfectly.