RANT: DVD playback is rough

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 06:14, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >   
>     I think my DAY of trying to get a commercial DVD movie to play will 
> be useful. I have watched whole movies on my FC4 computer. Here is what 
> works. You must yum totem and xine as a pair from Europe and also from 
> Europe get the Codex files. These 3 things are required and they are all 
> from Europe. When these things are all intalled use totem to diplay the 
> movie. Xine will not work and neither will mplayer.
> 

Follow the instruction link at the top of this page:
http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html
to do a one-line rpm command, after which you
can 'yum install xine mplayer vlc libdvd*' and
use the player of your choice.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com