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://