RANT: DVD playback is rough

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 6/2/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:24 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 6/2/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Thaks for the advice, but I've tried it all:
> >
> > [root at Watson ~]# rpm -qa | grep dvd
> > libdvdcss-1.2.9-2.lvn5
> > libdvdread-0.9.4-4.lvn5
> > dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-6.2.1
> > mythdvd-0.19-122.rhfc5.at
> > libdvdnav-0.1.10-2.lvn5
> > libdvdplay-1.0.1-4.lvn5
> >
>
> I haven't done that much with FC5 versions of things yet but with
> earlier versions I've had better luck with vlc than the other
> players.
>

I will have to give it a try.


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