Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Tonko Mulder <tonko.mulder@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Playing DVD problems
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:39:09
Message-Id: 43ba12950711280436x5d96c365rd764f0ffbd23b19a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Playing DVD problems by Jim Seymour
1 I use VLC to watch my DVD's. That works fine.
2 Maybe worth a try?
3
4 On 28/11/2007, Jim Seymour <jim@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > Is it possible to play DVD's under Gentoo AMD64? I can mount and read
6 > the discs fine. I have been trying to use Totem to play DVDs and all I
7 > get is "Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not
8 > have the appropriate plugins to handle it"
9 >
10 > I found a suggestion in a Gentoo Forum to run this command to find out
11 > what is missing:
12 > emerge -sv gst-plugins | grep -B 2 "Not Installed"
13 > This produced a long list of mostly masked packages. Totem is built with
14 > dvd support and I have the amd64codecs installed. I also have libdvdcss
15 > installed. Is there a good howto on DVD under Gentoo?
16 >
17 > Thanks,
18 >
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20 > Jim Seymour <jim@××××××××××××.com>
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