Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 1:06pm, MHR wrote On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: What version of mplayer are you using (and from what repo)?  The CentOS version doesn't help too much, as mplayer isn't included in any of the default repos.  And this doesn't appear to be a ve

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David McGuffey wrote: > This is my first post here on the CentOS forums.  I've been running Fedora > since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work.  But this is my first > foray into CentOS. > > I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Rob Kampen
MHR wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: David McGuffey wrote: I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive. you could install xine (it's in rpmforge), it wo

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
David McGuffey wrote: > This is my first post here on the CentOS forums. I've been running > Fedora since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work. But this > is my first foray into CentOS. > > I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability > to view a lot of d

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > What version of mplayer are you using (and from what repo)?  The CentOS > version doesn't help too much, as mplayer isn't included in any of the > default repos.  And this doesn't appear to be a very recent feature > (googling reveals

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:44pm, MHR wrote > "Erm, what?" > > -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) > Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. > > These are the only two appearances of the word "screensaver" on the > man page. There is no reference to a heartbeat-

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:26pm, MHR wrote >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain >> wrote: >>> $ man mplayer >>> . >>>        -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) >>>               Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns i

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:37:16 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:26pm, MHR wrote > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >> > >> Erm, what? > >> $ man mplayer > >> . > >> . > >>        -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) > >>     Â

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:26pm, MHR wrote On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Erm, what? $ man mplayer . .        -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only)               Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit.               If  your  screensaver supports ne

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > Erm, what? > $ man mplayer > . > . >        -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) >               Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. >               If  your  screensaver supports neither the XSS nor XResetScreen

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:07pm, MHR wrote > I like xine for most DVD playing - as long as it recognizes the DVD, I > have no trouble with it at all. It also has a feature that mplayer > lacks - turning off the screen saver while the movie is playing (which > also has its drawbacks...). Erm, what?

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > David McGuffey wrote: >> >> I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer >> sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive. >> > > you could install xine (it's in rpmforge), it works well for m

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
David McGuffey wrote: > This is my first post here on the CentOS forums. I've been running > Fedora since FC4, and have been working with RHEL 4 at work. But this > is my first foray into CentOS. > > I followed the multimedia guidance on the wiki, and now have the ability > to view a lot