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01-08-2005, 05:06 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
Posts: 5
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Watching DVDs
Hi again,
My new and exciting question this time is... does anyone know of any good Linux DVD players and decoders? If it helps my current distro is Fedora Core 3.
Thanks
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01-08-2005, 05:11 AM
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#2
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: England
Distribution: Used to use Mandrake/Mandriva
Posts: 2,794
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Install libdvdcss, and try MPlayer, Xine or Kaffeine. 
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01-08-2005, 05:50 AM
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#3
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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mplayer does not require libdvdcss btw.
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01-08-2005, 05:51 AM
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#4
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Herzliyya, Israel
Distribution: SuSE 10.1; Testing Distros
Posts: 1,832
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Actually, "Proud" has a point here that any player would do.
I use Totem.
Just install these:
libdvdcss
libdvdread
xvidcore - optional
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01-08-2005, 05:53 AM
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#5
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Helsinki
Distribution: Debian Sid
Posts: 1,107
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Quote:
Originally posted by acid_kewpie
mplayer does not require libdvdcss btw.
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Isn't it required for encrypted DVDs though?
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01-08-2005, 06:38 AM
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#6
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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nope. mplayer includes a heavily hacked version of it in it's own source code, which it called libmpdvdkit
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01-08-2005, 02:51 PM
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#7
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Helsinki
Distribution: Debian Sid
Posts: 1,107
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Thanks, didn't know that. The mplayer site even says that using systemwide libdvdcss libraries isn't recommended anymore.
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01-08-2005, 02:53 PM
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#8
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Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: suse 9.2
Posts: 582
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mplayer isn't very good at handling dvd menues...
Xine is very good at this though.
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01-08-2005, 06:11 PM
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#9
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Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Houston, TX
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 261
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Re: Watching DVDs
Quote:
Originally posted by cuscus1986
Hi again,
My new and exciting question this time is... does anyone know of any good Linux DVD players and decoders? If it helps my current distro is Fedora Core 3.
Thanks
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I think VLC is possibly the best video player for Linux, and it plays DVDs perfectly.
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01-09-2005, 01:00 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Eastern PA, USA
Distribution: K/Ubuntu 18.04-14.04, Scientific Linux 6.3-6.4, Android-x86, Pretty much all distros at one point...
Posts: 1,802
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I'd recommend Xine as well. I use it on both my desktop and laptop machines. As long as you don't attempt to rip movies, you probably don't have anything to fear, legally, from using DeCSS (fair use and all),... of course that's not legal advice...
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01-09-2005, 01:45 AM
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#11
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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I didn't realise that mplayer doesn't need libdvdcss. I am with the xine crew on this one, as long as you have win32 codecs, xine is a beauty use for DVD, video and audio playback.
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01-16-2005, 06:52 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Everett
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 805
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Quote:
Originally posted by Proud
Install libdvdcss, and try MPlayer, Xine or Kaffeine.
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Install it where and how?
Silly questions I know.......
I'm using Slackware so I have to compile from sources and am having trouble getting it to work.
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01-18-2005, 03:10 PM
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#13
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Herzliyya, Israel
Distribution: SuSE 10.1; Testing Distros
Posts: 1,832
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Go to http://linuxpackages.net/
download required packages with dependanciesand install them
$su
$installpkg *.tgz
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01-19-2005, 01:39 PM
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#14
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Member
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: macOS, OpenBSD
Posts: 669
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Xine is an excellent DVD player, and has nice menu support. I would recommend it.
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01-19-2005, 06:23 PM
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#15
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 6,042
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I mainly use Video Lan Client for DVD and PVR because I can broadcast to other computers on my network and I do not have to figure out what audio track that has 6 channels when playing DVD movies. I do not suggest using xine because it is a little rough to figure what look for. mplayer is very good if neither VLC, xine, or ogle can not play the movie.
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