On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know I can play DVDs on Linux because I can do it on MythTV, but I've > never gotten it to work on a non-Myth box. Totem says it needs codecs and > I can't find (or yum) them. > > Any tips?
Don't know what Linux flavor you're using, but, in F8 and F9, I had to do this after setting up the livna and adobe repos in yum. yum -y remove totem totem-mozplugin yum -y install totem-xine totem-xine-mozplugin libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay livdvdnav lsdvd xine-lib-extras-nonfree libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay flash-plugin libquicktime gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad and then wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm rpm -ivh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm rpm -ivh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm One could get the newest version by downloading and compiling the source for the 2007 bundle, but I was in a hurry, and these worked on my system. After that, I DL'd vlc. Totem and mplayer(from livna) now work for most of the DVDs I have. Mplayer gives a message that it can't open a codec, but then goes on to play the movie anyway. Same thing happens with .ogv screencasts. I don't know why certain movies still don't play. I suspect some digital rights nonsense. VLC has worked for everything. Robert Donovan -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
