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