On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David McGuffey davidmcguffey@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.