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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090603/b8b27411/attachment-0005.vcf>