DVD playing on Linux
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Fri May 26 12:09:57 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 13:41 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> I have burned hours of time trying to get FC4 to play a simple
> commercial DVD in my DVD player on this computer. I can put the DVD in
> my laptop with Windows XP and it automatically comes up with the movie
> starting.
>
> I realize the movie industry has been very bad about things and the
> work towards getting a DVD reader for Linux is being done in Europe away
> from the goons in Hollywood.
>
> Totem comes up saying I don't have "libdvdcss" so it can't work.
> Xine says it can't even get to the DVD because /dev/dvd/ is root only.
>
> Yes I tried to yum the lib and it can't find it. I have done
> everything the good web page
>
>
> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html
>
> has done I have done. Still it all does not work. I have loaded Totem,
> Xine and Mplayer and all three do not work.
>
> Karl
>
yum libdvd* and dvd* from the livna repo and you should be happy with
the results.
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