Dvd drivers for Mandriva linux 2005
How do i install drivers for linux so it can play dvds?
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Search for libdvd... ,libcss,libcss2 and most important dvd player such as Kafeine ,Xine or Mplayer
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Applications, not drivers (perhaps)
The chances are pretty close to certain that all of the hardware drivers you need are already installed. You may be lacking some application and perhaps the deCSS library to decrypt the movie.
If you haven't already configured your software sources (see the "Mandrake Control Center" Media Manager) to include the plf packages you need then the easiest way is to go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow the instructions there. It will probably be enough to add the plf free and non-free plus the contrib sources. Once that is set up you should be able to fire up the Software Packages Installation wizard in the "Control Center" and pick your application software. The plf versions of Xine or Mplayer would be a good place to start. Kaffeine is also quite nice. If necessary (I cannot remember if it is automatically pulled in as a dependency) you can also select libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.1.102plf. With that little lot on board the rest should be easy. Just putting a dvd in the drive should start Kaffeine and display your movie. If not, note any errors you get and come back here. Richard |
I find that installing win32codecs and xine-win32 once I've setup the PLF repo usually gets DVDs playing. Failing that just install libdvdcss.
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Allmost
easyurpmi got me libdvdcss2 and the dvd starts playing but then tells me its encrypted and i need libdvdcss. It was not a option in easyurpmi.
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Re: Allmost
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I just checked on my machine which has the DVD player - it also has a package called libdvdread3 installed.
On my 2005LE machine: Code:
rpm -qa | grep -i dvd |
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