David McGuffey wrote:
> This is my first post here on the CentOS forums. I've been running
> Fedora since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work. But this
> is my first foray into CentOS.
>
> I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability
> to view a lot of different video clips on the Internet, and have the
> ability to listen to a variety of music files. However, watching a DVD
> movie still escapes me. I followed all the steps on the page in the
> wiki, and had no errors in the output.
>
> When I put the DVD (Master and Commander in this case), into the drive,
> totem automatically comes up and I get a warning that I don't have the
> correct codec to play it.
>
> I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer
> sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive.
>
> So...what final steps do I need to complete to get a commercial DVD
> movie to play?
>
> machine is a Dell Latitude D830 with 2GB of ram and an Intel Core 2 Duo.
>
Have you tried vlc from the rpmforge repo? It will usually play
anything you throw at it.
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Les Mikesell
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