How to watch a DVD in Linux Fedora the easy way!

jonathonp · #1 30th January 2010, 01:42 PM

A lot of people may not actually be aware of the best way to watch a Movie in Linux.

Right click on the disc and open.
Then right click on the VIDEO_TS folder and
right click 'Open With' 'other Application' then scroll down to 'VLC' and left click.

Basically your opening the VIDEO_TS folder with VLC or the media player of your choice.

EDIT:

This could be helpful to newbies:

My Basic Multimedia Installation

To install rpmsfusion on fedora 12:

su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...ble.noarch.rpm[/CODE]

Install libdvdcss2 and libdvdcss from atrpms:

Fedora13 x86_64

Code:

rpm -Uvh [url]http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-x86_64/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss2-1.2.10-5.fc13.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh [url]http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-x86_64/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss-1.2.10-5.fc13.x86_64.rpm

Fedora 13 x86

Code:

su
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-i386/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss-1.2.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-i386/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss2-1.2.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm

RAR for x86_64:

Code:

rpm -Uvh [url]http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-x86_64/atrpms/stable/rar-3.8.0-2.fc13.x86_64.rpm

RAR for x86:

Code:

rpm -Uvh [url]http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-x86_64/atrpms/stable/rar-3.8.0-2.fc13.i686.rpm

Standard Multimedia Installation (This will bring in a lot other packages via dependencies):

Code:

yum install alsamixergui audacity avidemuxa banshee ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg easytag gnome-media-apps gnome-mplayer gnome-mplayer-nautilus kino libdvdread libdvdnav lsdvd mplayer-gui oggconvert oggvideotools libmatroska xvidcore listen soundconverter smplayer sweep tagtool transcode vlc vlc-nox vobcopy vorbis-tools xine xine-lib-extras-freeworld xmms2 xmms2-freeworld

To install mplayer codecs on i386 and x86_64 installations:

Code:

mkdir ~/mplayer-codecs
cd ~/mplayer-codecs
wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2 
tar -jxf all-20071007.tar.bz2 
su
mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs
mkdir /usr/local/lib64/codecs
mkdir /usr/lib/codecs
mkdir /usr/lib/win32
mkdir /usr/lib64/codecs

cp all-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs 
cp all-20071007/* /usr/local/lib64/codecs
cp all-20071007/* /usr/lib/codecs
cp all-20071007/* /usr/lib/win32
cp all-20071007/* /usr/lib64/codecs

sysmicuser · #2 20th March 2010, 03:29 PM

Sir,

I tried this way however VLC is not installed on my computer/Fedora 12.

marriedto51 · #3 20th March 2010, 04:15 PM

You can install VLC from the rpmfusion repostitories. Check the forum here, or this excellent guide for how to enable rpmfusion. Then install VLC with

Code:

su -c 'yum install vlc'

in a terminal.

steelaworkn · #4 21st March 2010, 04:39 AM

Yep, but just have VLC is not enough. You have to have the DVD codecs installed.