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

Wed Jun 3 19:44:13 UTC 2009
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:37:16 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:26pm, MHR wrote
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Erm, what?
> >> $ man mplayer
> >> .
> >> .
> >>        -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only)
> >>               Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit.
> >>               If  your  screensaver supports neither the XSS nor XResetScreen-
> >>               Saver API please use -heartbeat-cmd instead.
> >>
> >
> > Hey, gimme a break!  It's a LONG man page....
> 
> Heh, that it is.

Yes indeed.  mplayer has many (useful!) options and it is good that
they all are *well* documented.  Far too many programs have NO man page
at all or skimpy ones...

> 
> > Also, thanks!
> 
> No problem.
> 

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