DVD playing on Linux

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:26 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >   
>     This is what I got by doing yum info:
> 
> extras    : ################################################## 3890/3890
> Added 12 new packages, deleted 6 old in 41.32 seconds
> Installed Packages
> Name   : libdvdcss
> Arch   : i386
> Version: 1.2.9
> Release: 0.lvn.1.4

>     I'm not sure but it appears it is loaded. I was not able to do that. 
> I tried two or three yum install efforts and all failed.

It should have been installed automatically as a dependency - and
appears to be there.


>     New information. Before doing this last yum info I got Totem to WORK 
> :-)
> 
> It works fine full screen and my commercial DVD movie is shown very well 
> indeed. But Xine and MPlayer do not work. I have no idea why.

Did you try vlc?  It is interesting in that among other things it
can stream cross-platform to other machines on the network.

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  Les Mikesell
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