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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.
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.
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I think VLC is possibly the best video player for Linux, and it plays DVDs perfectly.
Distribution: K/Ubuntu 18.04-14.04, Scientific Linux 6.3-6.4, Android-x86, Pretty much all distros at one point...
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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...
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.
Originally posted by Proud Install libdvdcss, and try MPlayer, Xine or Kaffeine.
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.
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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