On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 16:29, Lee Connell wrote:
I installed Totem via yum, I also installed libdvdcss from rpm.pbone.net and I still can't play dvd's, it complains that I don't have the appropriate plugins available, has anyone gotten totem to work? Any ideas to help me get it working as I'm excited that fedora/redhat finally added a dvd/media player to the distro.
For DMCA and software patent reasons Red Hat can't distribute a free DVD player. However, Totem with the Gstreamer backend (which is what is included in Fedora Core 3) should be reasonably easy to upgrade to work as a DVD player. What you need is the DVD reading plugin for Gstreamer; a repository of Gstreamer stuff for FC2 is available here: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/fedora/2/i386/SRPMS.gst/ (the gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd-0.8.5-0.lvn.1.2.i386.rpm package looks pretty promising...)
I would think that these RPMs would work on FC3 as well; unfortunately I don't have a DVD player on the laptop that is currently running an FC3 prerelease so I can't really check sanely. I'd guess that FC3 packages will show up once FC3 is released.
Instructions for installation of non-included Gstreamer stuff on Fedora in general, using the upstream packages, are here: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora.html This repository is designed to be compatible with Fedora Core + Fedora.us. There are also repos for the additional dependencies available from that site.
Cheers, Per