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So you are saying, if I download the 3 multi-media packs via Yast, I now have everything that Windows and the DVD that came with my drive gives me? I'm sorry but you are mis-informed.
7.1 How can I play DVDs using xine-Kaffeine?
It appears that the packman site has re-done the kaffeine-xine RPM's and simplified it. Instead of trying to track any changes they may make, go to this site:
Robert Strunk wrote something like: My teens use linux... In fact my daughters demanded it on their personal machines when I put them together. They prefer the reliability. BTW, why is this...
and then click on Multimedia and then Xine - or something similar, if it changes again .....
There has been another site brought to my attention for getting xine running. At least one person has used this site and reported that it was quite easy:
For those of you that like doing it all by hand, I've left the old method in (modify the version numbers on the RPM names as appropriate):
Mark Kent Late 90's. Red Hat 6. Used GNOME Enlightenment for the desktop environment. Used VMware to run Windows at...
Arne Bj¿rn Henriksen posted a msg in the past that seems to cover this topic very well. Since I don't have a DVD player with which to test this, I will rely on comments and questions from those of you who do.
curl-7.10.7-0.pm.1.i586.rpm kaffeine-0.4-0.pm.1.i686.rpm libdvdcss2-devel-1.2.8-0.pm.2.i686.rpm libdvdnav-0.1.9-0.pm.1.i586.rpm libdvdread-0.9.4-2.pm.1.i586.rpm libfame-0.9.0-4.pm.1.i686.rpm libogg-1.1-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libogg-devel-1.1-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libtheora-0.0cvs20031122-0.pm.0.i586.rpm libxine1-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-aa-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-alsa09-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-arts-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-devel-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-directfb-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-dvb-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-dvd1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-dxr3-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-esd-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-flac-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-gnome-vfs-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-ogg-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-sdl-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-w32dll-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-xvmc-1 rc3a-0.pm.0.i686.rpm xine-ui-0.9.23-0.pm.0.i586.rpm
In addition I had to download the following and create an rpm:
libdvdcss-1.2.8.tar.bz2 libdvdcss2-1.2.8-0.pm.2.nosrc.rpm
this in the normal way
Now compare that to placing the DVD that came with the hardware in the drive and clicking a few times.
FWIW, chances are good I was using Linux way before you and while I am not an expert, I know a lot more than you may think. Redhat V 4.2 was my first. Robert Strunk
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