dvd playback on FC4 on a G3 ibook?

[gsgatlin]

Greetings,

I was given a Macintosh ibook a while back by my employer. I never really cared for MacOSX
so I was really happy to learn that FC4 was supporting apple hardware now. So I took
the plunge and so far things are going pretty well. I had anaconda keep crashing on me
while I tried to install the FC4 OS on the G3 ibook. I was able to get around this problem
by using the apple "disk utility" app on an install CD to remove all the old MacOSX (Panther)
partitions. After I did that the install worked perfectly and I have a new OS to play with.

So far I haven't been able to get the DVD player to work. Totem keeps giving me an
error message about not knowing what to do with a DVD URL. Has anyone else had that
problem with their PPC installs? It would be cool if I could get the DVD player to work
but even if I can't I'm still not going back to MacOSX. :)

I can access data CDs on the drive. They mount off of /media/cdrom/. Just can't playback
DVD disks within totem. Any ideas? Perhaps I need another movie player?

[gsgatlin]

I guess I should add the exact error message is:

Totem could not play 'dvd://`.

No URI handler implemented for "dvd://"

Interestingly when I do insert a DVD disk I am able to browse
the contents via Nautilus.

[gsgatlin]

It seems that no one has any ideas about dvd playback. Hmnn...

I tried installing an ass load of GStreamer rpms from http://mpeters.us/
but that didn't completely fix the problem. I now get totem to start playing
dvds but it always locks up by about 3 seconds into the playback.

Anyone want to recommend another movie player besides totem?

Surely someone has set up DVD playback on their mac laptop running
fedora? Anyone?

[juan]

I don't have a mac, but you things might work the same for you:

how do you run totem, do you use
totem 'dvd://'


Also, did you install totem-xine ? That's the one I use, maybe the one installed by default does not work with DVD's. I remember I found it to be a totally useless program until I installed totem-xine in place for totem.

But personally, I use VLC to watch DVD's.

Again, while not on a mac, it might work for you.

[gsgatlin]

Hey, I managed to get DVD playback working on my ibook. That was the trick. I needed to
have totem-xine installed insteads of totem. Just in case anyone else runs into this,
I used this as my Livna repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo file:

[livna]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/fedora-ppc/fc4-livna/RPMS.lvn/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

The gstreamer plugins I installed before came from
http://mpeters.us/yum/fedora/4/

Now I just need to install more games on my system. :)

Thanks for your help!