Dvd & Mpeg

Hi there

Im looking for something than can play MPEGS and also something else than can play DVD from the drive.. for fedora core 4..

when is this stuff gonna come inlcuded, and working

thanks all
P

mplayer at mplayerhq.hu will take care of most of your media issues

i like xine for dvd playing. it will play mpegs too but i use mplayer for that

Dear Sir P

As suggested by eegerda and doralsoral you can use Mplayer or xine or vlc and many others. Finding a player isn't a big issue.
However, as I understand your posting you want to play (commercial) DVDs. Those are commonly protected by an encryption.
For this you need libdvdcss2 e.g. from http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/
(http://download.videolan.org/pub/lib...2.9-1.i386.rpm
Debian/(K)ubuntu-Folks: See http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html)

From the package-Info
libdvdcss is a simple library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device without having to bother about the decryption. The important features are:
* Portability: currently supported platforms are GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD,OpenBSD, BSD/OS, BeOS, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP, MacOS X,Solaris, HP-UX and OS/2.
* Adaptability: unlike most similar projects, libdvdcss doesn't require the region of your drive to be set and will try its best to read from the disc even in the case of a region mismatch.
* Simplicity: a DVD player can be built around the libdvdcss API using no more than 6 library calls.
The current version is 1.2.9-1

This package isn't included in Fedora (and most other Distros) for legal issues. In fact in many countries you are not legally allowed to use it (Patent issue etc.). The number of countries is increasing so these packages might soon be gone - keep them (if you are allowed to)

Furthermore, you will need the Codec32
You can find them on the Mplayer-Site
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html

There are certainly rpm-packages available for fedora (as theer are for Suse) but you can savely follow the instructions on the site I mentioned.

Good luck and enjoy

Gromer,This a very nice and complete reply!

There's also a really good chance you will need to set the region on your DVD player, too (at least, I had to). The only reference I found to this was a single line in an obscure post somewhere on the net (can't recall where offhand). The tool to do this is called "regionset", and is available from http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/ ...well, at least right now it is. Due to the stupid *** copyright laws, there's no telling how long it will stay posted

For the life of me, I cannot fathom how creating and using a tool that allows you to play a DVD that you *BOUGHT* at the video store is a violation of copyright law, but that's a whole other rant...err, post.

Anyways, good luck with getting your DVD's to play!

Hello,
Try out mplayer. It is a great media player for linux. Don't forget to download the video codes which comes seperately in the website or else u will get stuck.
Hope it will solve your probs...

Happy Computing :-)