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.
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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.
Cheers, Carl.
