> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl.
>
>
