The best method to get every thing up and running is to add plf to urpmi's source pool and install them from there. plf is a collection of programs and modules that Mandrake can't distribute with it's distro due to copyright issues.
urpmi.addmedia plf http://mandrakeusers.com/PLF/mandrake/9.2/i586/ with ../hdlist.cz #all on one line. Then when it's got the list. urpmi --media plf libxine1 xine-win32 xine-gnomevfs and either xine-arts if using kde or xine-esd if using gnome For playing Movies and dvd's I'd personally suggest mplayer. urpmi --media plf mplayer-gui And yes to all the other files it want's to install. Chad On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 5:43 pm, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Douglas Royds wrote: > >> Not a big success so far. I tried two different DVDs, with exactly the > >> same result - the DVD spun up, then Totem crashed. > >> > >> Running Mandrake 9.2. > >> > >> I don't really know where to start on this one. Might the DVDs be > >> encrypted? Would this cause Totem to simply crash? Totem will > >> cheerfully play an audio CD on the same drive. > > > > Totem uses the xine libs to decode movie content. If you do not have > > libdvdcss or another similar CSS descrambler installed that libxine > > can hook into, then 99% of commercial DVD's sold will not play on > > your system. > > Good grief, replying to myself again! :-) > > If you have trouble playing Windows Media Video 8 or 9 files, and > Quicktime movies (quicktime especially) you will need to install > this following package... > > w32codec-0.5.2-1.i386.rpm (another binary only rpm) > > ...which can be downloaded from here... > > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
