How-to: DVD Playback in FC4
This is how to enable DVD playback uing yum
1. Login as root 2. Open Terminal as enter the following: 3. Open Gedit or any other text editor 4. Open /etc/yum.conf 5. Add the following at the bottom and save: [livna] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn gpgcheck=1 6. At the terminal, enter these 3 commands: Code:
yum install xine Please let me know of any mistakes; will be happy to add, cut or modify anything |
You should add:
enabled=0 to the yum configuration for the repository, and install with: yum --enablerepo=livna install xine totem-xine libdvdcss The reason is that livna is not 100% compatible with Fedora Extras. Pulling selected packages, as you are doing is OK; you just wouln't want to do a "yum update" with livna enabled. |
Hi, I'm new here, this is my first post, thanks in advance for any help
I am just switching to Linux, I am a longtime Win user, hell I predate Windows, I remember Dos 3.1 with various shell progs... anyway I tried the instructions above, I understand at least at a basic level how to use yum but when I try the first two commands, I get error messages at the end of the yum process, what follows is the output Quote:
I have FC4 for AMD64 |
ok, quick update here.
I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling totem. Still no luck I get this error message Quote:
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The repositories for FC4 x86_64 (AMD64) are not yet populated. Once they are, the above commands should "just work".
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There's another change that's needed in the livna repo definition in the first post... the release and architecture should not be listed explictly, or folks using x86_64 or ppc which are supported FC4 platforms will reference the wrong files. The livna repo should be defined as:
[livna] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 |
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Welcome to the world of Linux :) We can have so-called "dependency hell", but modern package managers such as yum and apt-get take care of any such dependencies. For instance, when I enter Code:
yum install xine |
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yum install totem-xine Code:
yum install totem Can you play dvd's using Xine? |
Thanks, once I changed the livna.repo file to reflect those changes it worked. I can play DVDs with Xine, though not with totem yet. When I try totem seems to open the DVD like its exploring the disc. No play options. Maybe on reboot...
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Are you using File->Open or File->Play Disc? I always use the latter. I can't remember off-hand, but in prefs you might have to set which CD Drive for Totem to use. I had to change it from my CD-RW to my DVD-ROM before it worked. And once again, make sure under Help->About it says "Using xine-lib 1.x" and not "Uinsg gstreamer 0.8.x"
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Well, more bad news.
I have since reinstalled FC4 because I thought I had really screwed things up... Well this did not solve that problem. Now not even Xine will play DVDs, this is really bloody frustrating as evey set of instructions of this DVD issue seems not to work for me. Now Totem (yes I checked to see that it is using Xine) just opens a browser window onto the DVd and Xine tells me that their is no plugin for DVD:/ If I can just get my media files to work here and get dualhead display configured I can work all the time in Linux.... |
I was getting the same exact error messages from Totem when I was trying to play DVD's. I read this thread. I was trying to do the yum install commands and was getting the same error messages about missing dependencies as thtadthtshldntbe was. So then I read that I had the wrong /etc/yum.conf format. So I changed that to be:
################################ [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d [livna] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 ################################################## Now when I do the 'yum install libdvdread libdvdcss xine totem-xine' command I get these error messages: Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: libdvdread No Match for argument: libdvdcss No Match for argument: xine No Match for argument: totem-xine Nothing to do This is so frustrating. I am using FC4 on AMD64. I'm so frustrated right now because there are several things I can not get to work on this system. This is just one of them. And no one has answers. I can't download the right plugins for Mozilla/Firefox, I can't install Image::Magick for perl....ARGH!!! I'm almost tempted to just start using Windows...but I don't want to. Someone please help!! :) |
Because of the enabled = 0 in the config lines, when you use yum and you want to use the livna repository use a command like this
yum --enablerepo=livna install xine whatever is in the brackets for that repo setup goes after the = sign. |
Thanks so much!! It works. I'm so happy. Now if I can get all these other errors to work, I'll be great! Can you please direct me to a good site that has basic to advanced YUM tutorials. I obviously need to read up on this, because I'm not familiar with this tool at all. I think I'd have lots easier time with my system if I studied this utility and knew all its options and configuration file options as well.
Thanks again.... |
Hi there.
I'm failry new to Linux and I'm getting the same problems mentioned at the start of this thread. [I used to know a lot of command-UNIX some 15 yrs ago, but that doesn't seem to help much in todays world - lol - ]. I followed the recommendations across the thread, and still have some difficulties. I think they are kind of simple, but don't know how to solve them. I'll summarize, since the thread has become kind of long (feel free to skip to the last few lines): ______ start of summary _____ I have FC4 on a Pentium III @ 700mHz, with Creative Labs 12x DVD (too old? -- sorry if so). I did a "su -" and ran the following: then edited /etc/yum.conf, adding these lines to the bottom: Code:
[livna] Code:
yum --enablerepo=livna install xine totem-xine libdvdcss and everything went quite fine across a good number of screen messages, until I got this last messages on my screen: Code:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution When I try to run totem-xine, or xine from my command line, all I get is "not found". So looks like I screwd my installation of totem-xine or have not yet completed it. What should I do next? I tried uninstalling totem from my FC4 in the past and running the above again, but didn't have much luck. Should I try that once more ? How can I finish my installation of totem-xine and / or xine? Thanks in advance and sorry for the long posting. |
Hi, I finally figured out how to get vlc media player to install. This meant no need for xine or totem. Here is a link to my blog entry detailing the process
http://thtad.blogspot.com/2005/07/eu...r-to-work.html |
Finally got my box (FC4) to show me some video !
Thanks for sharing. My faith on ease to install packages on Linux is back. Now I only need to learn how to use vlc :) . Seems pretty comprehensive and not entirely intuitive for newbies like me, but I'm definitely willing to learn ... Will look for information about it, elsewhere. Thanks again. c. |
The vlc forums are pretty thorough for learning the ins and outs of the program. Also one great advantage to vlc is that all of the codecs are built in. It pretty much plays anything, video or audio, the only problems I occasionally have are with quicktime files and I am sure that is a matter of tweaking. One note, vlc 8.xxx on the windows side does not have dts support for legal issues, unless you compile it.
http://forum.videolan.org/ |
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