RANT: DVD playback is rough

[Dan]

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
>
>
>
Try:
yum remove totem
yum install totem-xine
Then try running it on totem, with the xine backend from livna.
-Dan