MPlayer Installation
 

Yep, I'm a Newbie.
Distribution: SUSE 10.0
MPlayer:MPlayer-1.Opre7try3-1.i586.rpm

What does the error message 'Failed to open /media/dvd/dvd-rom.exe' mean and how do correct the problem?

mplayer is a media player, it plays media formats, .exe is not a media format, it's a windows binary format, therefore won't work natively on Linux either.

What are you trying to do/run exactly?

I am trying to run a commercial DVD. I am installing MPlayer from scratch using the following packages with YaST as the installer.
1) lame-3.96.1-3.2el4.rf.i386.rpm
2) xvid-1.1.0-0pm4.i386.rpm
3) libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i586.rpm
4) W32codec-all-20050412-0.pm.0.i586.rpm
5) MPlayer-1.Opre7try3-1.i586.rpm
I'm not sure what the process is after these packages were installed. Can you give me any insight into the proceedure?

i would ignore the .exe. it's most likely a windows app that trys to install when run in a windows machine(as opposed to a stand alone dvd player) if all is configured properly,you should just have to insert the disc, maybe click cancel if it asks about that .exe and wait a bit while mplayer starts

commercial dvd ? what is that ?
the command to get mplayer play a dvd from command-line ( if it is a movie... ) is:
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc
this would play the first title on the dvd - which is mostly - but not always - the main feature.
(the part: -dvd-device /dev/hdc being optional and of course adapted to whatever your dvd-device really is)