aze Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Hi folks! What program should I use to play dvds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted December 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrsach01 Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 Aze, I guess everyone is still sleeping after Christmas. :) Any way, your answer is here on this message board somehwere. I tried a quick search on my favorite dvd player (Xine) and found this: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?sho...topic=6873&st=0 The main point of the post is that you need a couple of files to read movies on dvds. Its not too hard to add the files. Heck, even I did it! :) One place to find the files is PLF (Penguin Liberation Front). Their web page is plf.zarb.org. Their FTP site is ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf. Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 As it happens Linux Format magazine has done a feature on just this topic this month, only of interest if your in the UK. Generally I prefer Xine, but Ogle is also pretty good. You can also use Mplayer and couple of others, but IMHO xine and Ogle are the best. Regardless of what you use you'll need the DVD decryption libaries. As Irsach01 says PLF is the best soure for those using MDK. You can add PLF as an urpmi source to make the installtion easier. http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php There is a more up-to-date version of Xine on PLF than is shipped with MDK. So once you've added PLF as a source I'd do a searches for Xine, DVD and CSS then install pretty much everything that comes up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 And then there is mplayer. Basically just download the big 3 (xine, mplayer, and ogle) alongside with CSS libraries from plf. One of them is sure to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 I just installed mine. 1) I replaced a cdrom reader for copying cd's, and I use k3b, so I had to make sure that the scsi emulation was intact. Harddrake removed it, but I keep a copy of fstab in my /home directory for such events. 2) I installed xine, because I like it. It is important that you install libdvdcss2, along with any of the other programs. If you do not, the protection code will crash any of the dvd programs. 3) Make sure that the input device in your choice program matches whatever you did in fstab. And enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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