FC5 Totem and DVD

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 4/6/06, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried ogle and mplayer. They work, after a fashion, but not with every
> DVD title out there.
>
> I use vlan. It plays everything I can get from a studio.
>
> But--it will /not/ play the DVD's that I burn on another machine. (Roxio
> Easy DVD Builder on Windows XP SP2.) Perhaps the MPEG-2 encoding is at
> issue.
>
> I have searched (through Google and elsewhere) for decent open-source
> DVD authoring tools. I have found none.
>
> Basically, I'm happy if my home-burnt DVD's can play on consumer-aimed
> home DVD players. And yes, they can. They just won't play on my Fedora
> boxes.

Xine on Fedora has played everything I've ever thrown at it, including
home-burnts from Apple OS X, Fedora, and WinXP.  It also works with
DVD menus.