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03-30-2006, 09:59 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Orlando, FL
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 2,905
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Watching DVD's?
OK - I have a lot of DVD's on disk that I want to watch on Linux but have no idea what application and codecs I need on my system (Debian).
Can someone please tell me what application will allow me to watch my DVD's?
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03-30-2006, 11:02 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Piraeus
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 13,223
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You can use mplayer to watch movies.If you want to install it, you must first install the codecs (you can d/l them from the same page). Also there are some nice skins for the gui version (gmplayer) you can choose. If you compile from source don't forget the to run ./configure --enable-gui
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03-30-2006, 12:49 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Orlando, FL
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 2,905
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I was looking for something like "Kaffeine" since it's a front end for Xine but am unable to find it when I search my APT sources...
Last edited by carlosinfl; 03-30-2006 at 12:53 PM.
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03-30-2006, 01:04 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: UK
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 3,467
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I use GXine rather than mplayer, although you still need the codecs, but GXine seems to allow the use of menus on a DVD where mplayer jumps right in to the main feature
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03-30-2006, 02:21 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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Don't forget libdvdcss to actually play the DVDs, all the software in the world won't help without it.
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