David McGuffey
2009-Jun-03 13:52 UTC
[CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki
<html><head> <link media="all" type="text/css" href="/webmail/static/deg/css/wysiwyg-3933289048.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head><body> This is my first post here on the CentOS forums. I've been running Fedora since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work. But this is my first foray into CentOS.<br><br>I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability to view a lot of different video clips on the Internet, and have the ability to listen to a variety of music files. However, watching a DVD movie still escapes me. I followed all the steps on the page in the wiki, and had no errors in the output.<br><br>When I put the DVD (Master and Commander in this case), into the drive, totem automatically comes up and I get a warning that I don't have the correct codec to play it.<br><br>I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive.<br><br>So...what final steps do I need to complete to get a commercial DVD movie to play?<br><br>machine is a Dell Latitude D830 with 2GB of ram and an Intel Core 2 Duo.<br><br><br></body></html>
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
2009-Jun-03 15:07 UTC
[CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki
David McGuffey wrote:> This is my first post here on the CentOS forums. I've been running > Fedora since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work. But this > is my first foray into CentOS. > > I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability > to view a lot of different video clips on the Internet, and have the > ability to listen to a variety of music files. However, watching a DVD > movie still escapes me. I followed all the steps on the page in the > wiki, and had no errors in the output. > > When I put the DVD (Master and Commander in this case), into the drive, > totem automatically comes up and I get a warning that I don't have the > correct codec to play it. > > I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer > sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive. > > So...what final steps do I need to complete to get a commercial DVD > movie to play? > > machine is a Dell Latitude D830 with 2GB of ram and an Intel Core 2 Duo.you could install xine (it's in rpmforge), it works well for me for DVDs. then the following should work: xine dvd://
Les Mikesell
2009-Jun-03 20:21 UTC
[CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki
David McGuffey wrote:> This is my first post here on the CentOS forums. I've been running > Fedora since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work. But this > is my first foray into CentOS. > > I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability > to view a lot of different video clips on the Internet, and have the > ability to listen to a variety of music files. However, watching a DVD > movie still escapes me. I followed all the steps on the page in the > wiki, and had no errors in the output. > > When I put the DVD (Master and Commander in this case), into the drive, > totem automatically comes up and I get a warning that I don't have the > correct codec to play it. > > I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer > sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive. > > So...what final steps do I need to complete to get a commercial DVD > movie to play? > > machine is a Dell Latitude D830 with 2GB of ram and an Intel Core 2 Duo. >Have you tried vlc from the rpmforge repo? It will usually play anything you throw at it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Ron Blizzard
2009-Jun-03 21:47 UTC
[CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizon.net> wrote:> This is my first post here on the CentOS forums.? I've been running Fedora > since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work.? But this is my first > foray into CentOS. > > I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability to > view a lot of different video clips on the Internet, and have the ability to > listen to a variety of music files.? However, watching a DVD movie still > escapes me. I followed all the steps on the page in the wiki, and had no > errors in the output.DVD playing has been kind of an odd problem for me on my desktop computer using CentOS 5.3. No problem at all on my laptop. I like and use VLC, but it won't play DVDs on this particular computer -- I get a segmentation error. Nor will mPlayer or Totem work. Xine works fine, so I just use that. VLC works fine on my laptop. I've never had any luck with Totem.> When I put the DVD (Master and Commander in this case), into the drive, > totem automatically comes up and I get a warning that I don't have the > correct codec to play it.That's my experience. And there never seems to be any fix that actually works.> I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer sat > there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive.mPlayer, on my computer, recognizes the DVD, it just doesn't play it.> So...what final steps do I need to complete to get a commercial DVD movie to > play? > > machine is a Dell Latitude D830 with 2GB of ram and an Intel Core 2 Duo.The first thing I would try is downloading and installing VLC. If that doesn't work, go for Xine. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3