Movie Player

[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:19 -0500, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:03:52PM -0800, HARPER, WILLIAM  IT2 (SW/AW) wrote:
> > I am new to the Linux world and I currently have Fedora Core 2 loaded and am
> > trying to get my DVD player to work and I down loaded
> > mplayer-1.0-33_pre4rhfc2.at.i386.rpm and am unable to get it to work.  Can
> > someone tell me the installation procedures so I can get it to work or of
> > another DVD player that will work.  
> 
> I fine MPlayer (http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu) and Ogle
> (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~dvd/) suit my needs just fine. Between the
> two of them, they've managed to play every movie (either on disk or DVD)
> I've thrown at them. They run fine in both FreeBSD and Linux, which makes
> me happy too. :)

Whatever player you use, may need to get plugins/libraries from non-US
sites such as livna.org or some of the freshrpms.net group (see
http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/freshrpms-list) to play
commercial DVDs.  Fedora Core packages will never include these due to
patent/copyright issues, and take into account your local legal
situation.

Phil