Thursday, July 14, 2005

Getting DVDs to play in Fedora Core Linux 4...

...because the official Linux HowTo doesn't cover any Fedora versions following 1 (and depressingly, the instructions change with each revision, and not in the direction of easier).

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This is how to enable DVD playback using yum

1. Login as root
2. Open Terminal as enter the following:
code:

3. Open Gedit or any other text editor
4. Open /etc/yum.conf
5. Add the following at the bottom and save:

[livna]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
enabled=0
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
gpgcheck=1

6. At the terminal, enter these 3 commands:
code:
yum --enablerepo=livna install xine totem-xine libdvdcss

7. Now you can use either Xine or Totem to play your DVD. Enjoy


Please let me know of any mistakes; will be happy to add, cut or modify anything.


(In my case I have to either remove the "totem-xine" argument from the line above, or uninstall totem (using the command "yum remove totem") -- apparently Totem and Totem-Xine hate each other.

Nope, it's not ready for the desktop...

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