On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David McGuffey<davidmcguffey@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
DVD playing has been kind of an odd problem for me on my desktopcomputer using CentOS 5.3. No problem at all on my laptop. I like anduse VLC, but it won't play DVDs on this particular computer -- I get asegmentation error. Nor will mPlayer or Totem work. Xine works fine,so I just use that. VLC works fine on my laptop. I've never had anyluck with Totem.
> 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.
That's my experience. And there never seems to be any fix that actually works.
> 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.
mPlayer, on my computer, recognizes the DVD, it just doesn't play it.
> 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.
The first thing I would try is downloading and installing VLC. If thatdoesn't work, go for Xine.
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