[CentOS] DVD support on CentOS 5.1

MHR mhullrich at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 03:02:11 UTC 2008


On Feb 2, 2008 6:11 PM, fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 09:01:48AM -0700, David G. Miller wrote:
> > 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-
> > >>
> > >
> >
> > That should be gstreamer-plugins-ugly.  I usually only make such
> > transpositions with numbers.
>
> hmm. doesn't work for me. Totem still says:
>
> Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not have the appropriate plugins to handle it.
>
> But of course it doesn't say which plugins it wants.
>
> vlc and mplayer both work for DVDs,... wonder what else totem needs?
>
Do you have all of the libdvd* libraries?

mhr



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