Viewing a DVD with Totem

Chris Kottaridis chriskot at quietwind.net
Tue Feb 5 06:14:10 UTC 2008


Interestingly enough Kaffiene started running DVD's as well. So, I now
seem to have lots of options.

Thanks


On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 12:03 -0700, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 20:36 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > rpm.livna.org
> > 
> > It's possible dvd playback works in gstreamer totem again, try:
> > 
> > wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
> > rpm -ih livna-release-8.rpm
> > yum install libdvdcss
> > 
> > If that doesn't get you dvd playback with your fluendo drivers - then
> > 
> > yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-ugly
> > gstreamer-plugins-bad
> 
> This didn't work. I got the same complaint.
> 
> > 
> > If that doesn't get you totem dvd playback -
> > 
> > yum remove totem
> > yum install totem-xine xine-lib xine-lib-extras
> > xine-lib-extras-nonfree
> > 
> > That will give you DVD capable totem
> > 
> 
> This did work! Thanks.
> 
> The only nit is that when I pull down the "Applications->Sound & Video"
> menu the logo icon for "Movie Player" doesn't show up. Just the phrase
> "Movie Player"
> 
> Hardly worth a concern.
> 
> So, now I can use either totem-xine or vlc for DVD viewing.
> 
> Thanks
>     Chris Kottaridis    (chriskot at quietwind.net)
> 




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