[CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

[Rob Kampen]

MHR wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
> <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote:
>   
>> David McGuffey wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>       
>> you could install xine (it's in rpmforge), it works well for me for DVDs.
>> then the following should work:
>> xine dvd://
>>     
>
> I like xine for most DVD playing - as long as it recognizes the DVD, I
> have no trouble with it at all.  It also has a feature that mplayer
> lacks - turning off the screen saver while the movie is playing (which
> also has its drawbacks...).
>
> Mplayer needs a little more information to play a DVD than just
> running it.  You didn't post your command line, so I'm not sure what
> you did, but you typically have to enter something like this:
>
> mplayer -dvd-device /dev/<your-dvd-player-here> dvd://<track #>
>
> (or do what I did and make an alias for it).  If your screen saver is
> on a timer that's shorter than the movie, you'll need to type
> something or move the mouse every so often, too, and you have to be
> careful not to type something that will stop mplayer!
>
> I've never had any luck with totem.  It has never had the right
> codecs, it doesn't update with yum to get them, it won't automatically
> go fetch them, and since I like both xine and mplayer, I never
> bothered to find out why or how.
>
> HTH
>
> mhr
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I regularly use mplayer, xine and vlc.
I have found totem to be un-intelligent, never has the codecs one needs, 
cannot find how to fix so as life is short
yum remove totem* worked for me.
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