> Seeing the recent DVD player thread, I thought I would try > to get my DVD drive playing DVD's in Linux last night. > > <rant> > What a mess. > > I have RH 9.0 - i.e. reasonably up to date. > > I tried a number of different mplayer rpms from various > places, all needed some other packages, which needed some > other packages etc. If I have a 56K modem and an hour > before bedtime, I don't want to be farting around > downloading various packages in the hope they'll sort it > out. I want a few RPMs which, together, will let me play > DVDs on RH 9. Is that so hard? Perhaps I didn't have the > correct google incantations - but I couldn't see a simple > "install this rpm for RH9 and you can play DVDs" > anywhere. Source or binary I don't care - I just want > something that works without lots of hassle. </rant> > > I was trying mplayer. xine looked like it had similar > issues. Didn't look at ogle. > > Perhaps someone on the list has found the magic > combination of packages to install on RH9 that will work. > > Please let me--- let us all--- know. > > No smug gentoo comments either.
I'm happily using the rpms available from http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ (linked from the main xine site under the binaries download). Even has the win32 codecs as an rpm. You can also try http://freshrpms.net/ which has the packages and is (rpm) apt capable. If you're using the apt package manager from there you should just be able to do (from memory): apt-get install xine-ui libxine1 libdvdcss Daniel
