I've fresh installed SuSE 10.1 (32-bit) on an x86_64 laptop, as a test install. As usual, there were only a few minor technical problems but a bunch of major legal problems. I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos. Most of the howtos that I've located seem to refer to some ancient distro version, 7.2 or something like that. Can anyone point me to a recent howto for installing video software on a SuSE Linux 10.1 box, preferably using only rpms. (I'm not real good at compiling from source.) As a minor whine, I thought that the software I seek would be available on the DVD, but apparently not. In short, I'm frustrated and completely lost. Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated. Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos. <snip>
Hi Donald, This topic has been addressed on SLE at least a *dozen* times, if not three, since the release of 10.1. So your answer is definitely in the archives, which can be searched here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&r=1&w=2 In addition, I would recommend checking the multiple installation sources described on opensuse.org, particularly 'suser-guru' and 'packman'. hth & regards, Carl
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos. <snip>
Hi Donald,
This topic has been addressed on SLE at least a *dozen* times, if not three, since the release of 10.1. So your answer is definitely in the archives, which can be searched here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&r=1&w=2
In addition, I would recommend checking the multiple installation sources described on opensuse.org, particularly 'suser-guru' and 'packman'.
hth & regards,
Carl
Either you completely misunderstood my problem or that URL has the worst search engine I've ever run across. I searched for 'DVD', 'movie', and 'video'. None of the hits discussed what software needs to be located and installed in order to make xine, et al, actually play DVDs or any of the formats that are available today. I need a tutorial-style howto on what to install and how to install it. Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos.
Donald, 1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito -- Marek Chlopek
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos.
Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
-- Marek Chlopek
Hot, Dang! That worked. That's so easy, it should be posted somewhere, perhaps on Microsoft's home page. :-) In any case, thanks. I can now take the rest of the day off and not feel frustrated. Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 14:33 -0600, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos.
Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
-- Marek Chlopek
Hot, Dang! That worked. That's so easy, it should be posted somewhere, perhaps on Microsoft's home page. :-) In any case, thanks. I can now take the rest of the day off and not feel frustrated.
Much as I agree with your sentiments on how helpful the reply was, the poster does give you the means to do what you want, if you'll do a bit of work. There have been several discussions on adding installation sources in YaST, and you can search on Google for that. Once you done that bit of work, part 2 is as easy as choosing to install new software using YaST. I did this all by hand in 10.0 and this is a listing of the download directory I ended up with. It might not be complete as I don't re-download files that I already have. lame-3.96.1-pm.1.i586.rpm MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.3.i586.rpm mad-0.15.1b-1.pm.0.i586.rpm MPlayer-1_1.0pre7-pm.3.i586.rpm mplayerplug-in-3.17-0.pm.0.i586.rpm w32codec-all-20050412-0.pm.0.i586.rpm If you can master adding the new source this ought to be easy. HTH, Mike
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos.
Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
Nor quite. You need to also install libdvdcss. Search on the packman site for detailed instructions. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 18:21 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos.
Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
Nor quite. You need to also install libdvdcss. Search on the packman site for detailed instructions.
That's what I thought but my encrypted DVDs play. Is it possible that libdvdcss is included in mplayer? Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:37, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 18:21 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos.
Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
Nor quite. You need to also install libdvdcss. Search on the packman site for detailed instructions.
That's what I thought but my encrypted DVDs play. Is it possible that libdvdcss is included in mplayer?
Or is it possible you already had that installed on your system, before installing MPlayer?
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:29 -0400, BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:37, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 18:21 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote: > I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software > I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos.
Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
Nor quite. You need to also install libdvdcss. Search on the packman site for detailed instructions.
That's what I thought but my encrypted DVDs play. Is it possible that libdvdcss is included in mplayer?
Or is it possible you already had that installed on your system, before installing MPlayer?
Anything's possible but this was a fresh install so unless SuSE is now including libdvdcss in the initial install... Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
On a different vain but still on the same topic, is there a way in Gnome Desktop for SuSE10.1 to make Mplayer the default player instead of Totem. Dont really drive gmone that much as I prefer KDE. Regards and thanks -- Chris H.
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos.
Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
Nor quite. You need to also install libdvdcss. Search on the packman site for detailed instructions.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Friday 26 May 2006 12:21, Ken Schneider wrote: libdvdcss is needed if you want to copy a dvd.
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos. Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
Nor quite. You need to also install libdvdcss. Search on the packman site for detailed instructions.
libdvdcss is not on packman ASAIK. I tried looking for it but received the error message stating that because of new copyright law in Germany libdvdcss is not available. Fortunately I had a copy of it from the pre-stupidity times. Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 10:53 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote:
I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in order to make the laptop play movies/videos. Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
Nor quite. You need to also install libdvdcss. Search on the packman site for detailed instructions.
libdvdcss is not on packman ASAIK. I tried looking for it but received the error message stating that because of new copyright law in Germany libdvdcss is not available. Fortunately I had a copy of it from the pre-stupidity times.
The last I looked there were instructions on where to get and install it unless those have removed as well. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 10:53 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:49 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2006 21:48, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:06 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 13:35, Donald D Henson wrote: > I don't seem to be able to identify/locate all the software I need in > order to make the laptop play movies/videos. Donald,
1. add a new source (in yast): packman 2. install mplayer 3. finito
Nor quite. You need to also install libdvdcss. Search on the packman site for detailed instructions.
Ken Schneider wrote: libdvdcss is not on packman ASAIK. I tried looking for it but received the error message stating that because of new copyright law in Germany libdvdcss is not available. Fortunately I had a copy of it from the pre-stupidity times.
The last I looked there were instructions on where to get and install it unless those have removed as well.
I haven't gone back to see if there the instructions you mention but I'll check if I have to go back there. Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
I haven't tried downloading it but libdvdcss appears to be available still here: http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/ It's possible that these are older versions. They should work however... -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== PLEASE DON'T drink and drive it's not clever, it's just stupid. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
Kevanf1 wrote:
I haven't tried downloading it but libdvdcss appears to be available still here:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/
It's possible that these are older versions. They should work however...
Thanks, Kevan. Now bookmarked this URL. Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
On 29/05/06, Basil Chupin
Kevanf1 wrote:
I haven't tried downloading it but libdvdcss appears to be available still here:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/
It's possible that these are older versions. They should work however...
Thanks, Kevan. Now bookmarked this URL.
Cheers.
I think you can get the library from freshmeat too but I'm not 100% sure. I just did a Google Linux search :-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== PLEASE DON'T drink and drive it's not clever, it's just stupid. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
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