FC5 Totem and DVD

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 13:43:19 UTC 2006


On 06/04/06, antonio montagnani <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/4/6, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
> > antonio montagnani 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??)
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
> >
> > See "DVD Playback"
> >

>
> this issue is not clear to me.
> Do you mean that I cannot play a DVD that I bought this morning at the
> newsstand??
>

Short version: you can't.

Long version: you can if you install xine, mplayer or the gstreamer
plugins from any of the additional repositories (freshrpms, dag,
atrpms, livna). This is (mainly) due to patent restrictions (and poor
legislation...) and outside Redhat's control (since they must play
by the rules).

Google for fedora faq. (Personally I think issues like this are putting
Fedora and other distros out of reach for non-technical home users,
but there's not much we can do short of a revolution)

--
imalone




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