What is a good DVD player? I tried downloading MPlayer but it had all these errors upon installation and I couldn't install it.

Is there anything EASY TO INSTALL that'll just get my DVD working on my computer? Thanks

I just tried GeeXBoX .It's a live CD that loads a minimal Linux distro and runs MPlayer and plays DVDs,CDs,VCDs etc....Takes about 5 MB .Doesnt matter what distro or,for that matter,what OS you have.
lynch

I used mplayer and it worked for me, but not without a ton of work. use the rpm -Uvh and whatever errors it gives you, pay attention to them. What Distro are you using? If it gives you errors about libraries, go to google.com and copy and paste the lib it needs. I got Mplayer from http://ftp.falsehope.com/home/rathan...yer/#downloads
You have to install all of it at once; My installation in the command line was 5 lines of rpms. But now that i have it, it plays everything: Quicktime, Mpeg, dvd, vcd, svcd, windows media, realplayer-you just have to get all the packages. Good luck!

Can't someone just make a RPM (install wizard) and bundle it all together for us beginners that don't know squat?

** Oh jeez!!!! I just tried to install it and it says I need to install library files and dependancies? There's like 100 things i need to install?!?? uff!! You gotta be kidding me!

What distrobution and version are you using? Also, post what it says in the terminal. I'm a newbie too and it was really hard for me to get it to work, but now that I have it was so worth the hours I spent to get it. I use Red hat 9 and it only took a coupld of extra libraries for me to get all to install.

From their website:

Software Requirements

This is usefull only if you consider compiling / customizing your own GeeXboX. First of all, GeeXboX has to be compiled under GNU/Linux. Besides, you may need some packages such as :

* gcc : The GNU Compiler Collection, used to build the whole project. Please avoid using Gcc 2.96 (available on old Redhat and Mandrake distributions) which is not really MPlayer-compliant.
* make : GNU Make is a program that determines which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled and issues the commands to recompile them, when necessary.
* patch : this package is needed to patch some official programs sources to customize them to be GeeXboX compliant or simply to add some features.
* wget : Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the Web using http and ftp, the two most widely used Internet protocols.
* nasm : This is an x86 assembler which will flat-form binary files, a.out, COFF and ELF Unix object files, and Microsoft 16-bit DOS and Win32 object files. It is used to compile the uClibc of the GeeXboX.
* dosfstools : Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems.
* mkisofs : Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem images.
* mkzftree : this program is available from the zisofs-tools package and let you create compressed iso images.
* cdrecord : A command line CD writing tool cdrecord allows you to create CDs.

Besides, some modules need to be compiled in your kernel. Indeed, for creating DOS filesystem (standard boot CDROM filesystem), you need to add these modules into the Kernel FileSystems and Block Device menus :

* CONFIG_FAT_FS
* CONFIG_MSDOS_FS
* CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS
* CONFIG_VFAT_FS
* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP, for device loopback support.

You also need to have at least 500 MB of free disk space in order to build the GeeXboX properly.

And last but not least, GeeXboX can only be compiled by the super-user, because compilation actually need to mount in loopback the newly-created filesystem, which can be done only by root ;-(

My response: I don't get it. Does it work or not?

For me it says
gcc -c -g -DXP_UNIX -Iinclude -ISource/_gen -I/usr/X11R6/include -I. -I/usr/include Source/mplayerplug-in.c
make: gcc: Command not found
make: *** [mplayerplug-in.o] Error 127
What does it mean? What do I need to do to fix it? I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and I downloaded the mplayerplug-in-0.80.tar.gz

You download the 4.3 MB iso from here and burn it onto a CD.That's all I had to do.Then just boot the from the CD.
Get it?
lynch

Good news: I got it to work after burning the ISO image in Windows XP.
Bad news?: it won't work within mandrake? I don't want to have to reboot my computer just to watch a DVD.

I'm kind of looking for something simple to install and that will run with Mandrake 9.1 without having to reboot. Geexbox has the simpilcitiy of installation (just boot up CD) but inconvenient to reboot my computer back and forth.

Well, just MPlayer won't work. You'll need libdvdcss (or libdvdcss2, whatever the latest version is called.), and potentially a few other things (I can't remember them all, but there are quite a few good guides - Google for Linux DVD and you'll find a lot of stuff. I myself use Xine. Not too bad, and it works for me.

I always quite liked the Ogle DVD Player it's fairly simple to download and works.

I have a different topic, but no one is replying and since it kind of goes along with this topic I figured I would post here..

I tried installing Mplayer, and after installing a ton of other Packages I still have two more that needs to be installed before Mplayer will install.. Lirc and Mplayer-Fonts.. but with those I get errors

Here is what I get when trying to install Lirc

[root@localhost root]# rpm -vih lirc-0.6.6-fr1.i386.rpm
warning: lirc-0.6.6-fr1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0.0.0 from install of lirc-0.6.6-fr1 conflicts with file from package liblirc0-0.6.6-1mdk

Here is what I get when trying to install Mplayer Fonts

[root@localhost root]# rpm -vih MPlayer-fonts-0.91-alt21.i586.rpm
warning: MPlayer-fonts-0.91-alt21.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ae59c160
error: Failed dependencies:
MPlayer >= 0.90 is needed by MPlayer-fonts-0.91-alt21

If Mplayer needs the Fonts to Install and the Fonts need Mplayer to install, I am kind of stuck here..

Does anyone here know things I should/can do?

Thanks in Advance..

Micro420
Have a look at http://plf.zarb.org
It has a good section that will help you set up your urpmi sources, with that done all the plugins for encrypted dvd play will be available. (such as libdvdcss2)
Xine also works well, with the d5d plugin for encrypted dvds

I have always wondered, why not put the packages into one big download and install? I swear its alot of trouble to get everything going, and still Mplayer won't install.. ERR!!! ERR!!! *NEEDS MORE COFFEE*

Micro420,there is the added hassle of booting from CD but it seemed like a good thing to use like ,say, a little kid wanted to watch a DVD.They could without booting your installation.I just threw the idea out there because I though it was neat.Yor thread has gotten me wanting to get DVDs to play on my comp,now.Thanks.
lynch