<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 13, 2008 4:21 PM, Scott Doty <<a href="mailto:scott@ponzo.net">scott@ponzo.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:09:11PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:<br>> On Jan 13, 2008 10:41 AM, Jack Smith <<a href="mailto:jack.delbert@gmail.com">jack.delbert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Has anyone tried to use the Mplayer that comes with Fedora 8 to play DVDs?
<br>> > I have and I'm failing miserably. Looks like the picture is made up of<br>> > multi-colored giant pixels. Any ideas?<br>><br>> Red Hat has been known to pull support for just about anything that
<br>> might have any sort of patent issues (there was a big deal about them<br>> pulling support for MP3 audio a few years ago). I don't know if<br>> Fedora is the same way (probably is, since it was started by Red Hat),
<br>> but you could try downloading MPlayer from <<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu" target="_blank">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</a>><br>> and see if it gives different results.<br><br></div>mplayer actually comes from (or should come from) livna, which is where some
<br>of the, ahem, "questionably-licenced" software for Fedora resides...<br><br> <a href="http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/" target="_blank">http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/</a><br><br>Jack, assuming you've enabled the Livna repo, and you've done "yum install
<br>mplayer" and "yum install libdvdcss", it should just work out of the box.<br>(Does for me...I'm using x86_64...)<br><br>BTW, folks with other distros that can use SRPMS might be interested in<br>browsing:
<a href="http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/8/SRPMS/" target="_blank">http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/8/SRPMS/</a> -- there's<br>plenty of "extras" available in that repo that might come in handy...
<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Thanks, it does. So long as I don't use the one that came with Fedora. :-)<br><br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.