DVD playing on Linux

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Thu May 25 22:26:09 UTC 2006


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 15:02 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>>   
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>>     Sorry you are very wrong. I got the rpm and when I tried to load it 
>> it said:  package livna-release-4-5 is already installed
>> and that should be what I need. I'm not have trouble getting to livna.
>>     
>
> Does:
> yum info libdvdcss
> show an installed package that came from livna?
>
>   
    This is what I got by doing yum info:

extras    : ################################################## 3890/3890
Added 12 new packages, deleted 6 old in 41.32 seconds
Installed Packages
Name   : libdvdcss
Arch   : i386
Version: 1.2.9
Release: 0.lvn.1.4
Size   : 54 k
Repo   : installed
Summary: A library for transparent DVD device access with on-the-fly CSS 
decryption.

Description:
 libdvdcss is a cross-platform library for transparent DVD device
access with on-the-fly CSS decryption. It currently runs under Linux,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, BeOS, Win95/Win98,
Win2k/WinXP, MacOS X, HP-UX, QNX, and OS/2. It is used by libdvdread
and most DVD players such as VLC because of its portability and
because, unlike similar libraries, it does not require your DVD drive
to be region locked.

    I'm not sure but it appears it is loaded. I was not able to do that. 
I tried two or three yum install efforts and all failed.

    New information. Before doing this last yum info I got Totem to WORK 
:-)

It works fine full screen and my commercial DVD movie is shown very well 
indeed. But Xine and MPlayer do not work. I have no idea why.

Karl





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