On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:33:19 -0400 Temlakos wrote:
This new machine I just installed F20 on, has an optical drive that can read Blu-ray disks. But when I insert one, of any description, it will not recognize it as a "new device."
That sounds more like a broken drive. It has to at least get past linux recognizing the disk before mplayer could play it. I have no problem recognizing blu-ray disks in my system with an LG blu-ray drive.
I don't remember which libs are important for mplayer, I just keep getting a bigger and bigger list of things it can use and install them all when I reinstall fedora.
Certainly if you go to rpmfusion.org you can follow the instructions for getting the repo added, then "yum install mplayer". After that, when mplayer gives a message about a library it didn't find, you can see if that lib is also on rpmfusion.