Scott Howell writes: > THanks to all who offered suggestions, I resolved the problem. After > much poking around I found that I needed libdvd-css That's a bug. Certainly when installing by hand you'd come across installing that lib. Where did you get your mplayer? Mine came via yum from the Dag repository, which would certainly make this a bug. > Now for my wife's benefit as she was curious to see the movie on the > screen, if I could figure out how to get this to use the x11 display I'd > be in business. Just log into X, and do export DISPLAY=:0 before launching mplayer in a console.