On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at 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. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3