Joe's Linux Blogs!

03/26/08
Getting DVDs to play in Linux... This is an issue that many people are wondering about, so I thought I would touch on it just a bit. First it is possible. You need to install win32 codecs and some other stuff and you will have all the multi media you can handle. Try this link for openSuSE users, http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia pick eithe gnome or KDE and install. Presto! Your system will now support DVDs and other stuff too. One little glitch I ran into is this... Oh boy here it comes... Totem is the default DVD player for gnome and it might be the only one that DOES NOT WORK! Oh crap you say. Not to worry there are many other players and all of them work on my system. So, if Totem crapes out try theses...

xine (click here to learn more about xine)
kaffeine
codeine
Mplayer (not so sure of this one yet)
VLC media player
Kplayer
gnome Mplayer
SMPlayer

Starting to see a pattern here?

I use xine and I like it a lot. (gump) So, there it is. For what ever reason Totem will not work on my system. It works on my son's computer just fine, it might work on yours too. Might be the video card? Might not? But I can play DVDs, I have full flash and java support in Firefox too. I can even play most Internet videos using the Totem plug in... Go figure? So go to the link on this page and fear not... Well that's it for this time... Happy Linuxing. Is that even a word?