[CentOS] DVD support on CentOS 5.1

MHR mhullrich at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 21:08:51 UTC 2008


On Feb 1, 2008 2:17 AM, Ross Cavanagh <ross-cavanagh at bm-sms.co.jp> wrote:
>
> >
> > The package that you want to install from rpmforge is:
> >
> > gstreamer-ugly-plugins
> >
> > It should make gstreamer (and totem on centos5) be able to play dvds.
> >
> > I am not sure if it works, as I use mplayer on my personal workstation :D
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Johnny Hughes
> Also, you may require libdvd, this is available from the rpmforge repo.
>
> -Ross-
>

Actually, you need several libdvd libraries - libdvdplay, libdvdcss,
libdvdnav, libdvdread and maybe something else (I still can't get
Totem to play my DVDs - I use mplayer, too, and xine when it works
~40% of the time).

mhr



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