bamboo_spider Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Hi I have been using Linux since June04 , the following distro's : FC1, FC2, FC3, Suse 9.1 , and now Mandrake 10.1 CE On none of these is it possible to play VCD's or DVD's bought off the shelf, be it Kaffiene, mplayer, Xine whatever they just don't play it. Why ? And what do I do now - what do I Install and from where ? regards Bamboo Compaq Armada E 500 384 mb RAM 20 GB Hdd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Go to the the "Easy-Urpmi" link at top of page and add both PLF sources. The files you need from them are libdvdcss and libdvdread. Once installed you can play DVD's from any region. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 libdvdread libdvdcss libdvdnav Doesn't hurt to have these: libaviplayavcodec win32-codecs real-codecs xanim-codecs Follow the instructions to configure all your sources (esp. contrib and plf) at the EasyUrpmi link above right and urpmi those. The top ones aren't included in distros because they are illegal in the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 And for VCDs, you need the vcdx plugin for xine. VCDs have always worked fine for me right off the bat as long as the right plugins were installed, DVDs are difficult because of the licensing issues, but easy once you know about libdvdcss and where to get it for whichever distro you use. Or just buy Linspire, they bought a license. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 (edited) There is also some post on this board that has A LOT of nice plugins for playing dvd's and vcd's. I'll get started looking for that right now and post back with the link. I have been able to play DVD's but not as great as I would on my Xbox or Windows :( VCD's I'm not going to say anything, I can only play 1 of 20 that I have, and it's not really being played, more or less looks like a slide show. -Luis EDIT: here is the link, click me Edited February 21, 2005 by Jet2k5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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