playinig DVDs

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Wolfgang Gill wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 13:49, fred smith wrote:
>  
>
>>Gang:
>>
>>I'm trying to get a DVD player going on RC1.
>>
>>I downloaded xine and xine library RPMS, installed 'em without incident.
>>But when I attempt to play any DVD I get the FBI warning screen followed
>>by some error or other about being unable to read (or maybe access) the
>>files.
>>
>>Now I can mount the thing and see that all the files are there. Clues,
>>anyone?
>>
>>I also was going to try mplayer so I downloaded the Yarrow RPM for it,
>>but when attempting to install it, it spewed out 10-15 unfulfilled
>>dependencies. Since that machine is not on the net, it wasn't worth the
>>trouble to go find 'em all and transport via sneakernet.
>>    
>>
>
>To Play encrypted DVD's with Xine, you will also need to download and
>install the following libraries.
>
>libdvdcss
>libdvdnav
>libdvdplay
>libdvdread
>
>If you were to use APT to download Xine, it should have downloaded these
>as well. I run Xine, plays ALL DVD's very nicely. But, those libraries
>are the key to playing most DVD's. (Plus it will play most other Video
>files too, *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.avi etc)
>
>
>Wolf
>  
>
Using the xine rpm from freshrpms.net I only had to add libdvdcss for 
full dvd functionality.

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