DVD on Linux

[Doran Barton]

Not long ago, Richard Brown proclaimed...
> Has anyone had much luck playing DVD videos on Linux?  I have been
> playing around with it for over a year.  I have tried several different
> players with the decss plugin with little luck.  I found videolan.org
> and installed the rpm files on Redhat 9 and had DVD movies playing
> within 10 minutes.  Just thought I would share it if anyone else is
> looking to play DVD movies.  Another cool feature is it will stream
> DVDs, and other video in several different codecs over a lan.

If you're using Red Hat 9,  use xine and/or mplayer as packaged from
freshrpms.net and you will be able to play DVDs right away. I wrote a
little about this for RH8:

  < http://www.iodynamics.com/education/redhat_tips.html > 

-=Fozz

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