DVD Playback on Fedora Core 3

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Hello,

I have installed Fedora Core 3 on my laptop as we all know and I interested in getting DVD playback working.

My first problem is that gmplayer reports that "Error initalising the selected videoout (-vo) device". However with mplayer from the command line with no running args it works fine.

Secondly /dev/dvd is nonexistant.

Pointers anyone?

Yours,
John Tate

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Nevermind the /dev/dvd stuff, I apt-get'd ogle earlier. I just symlinked /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc because I found /dev/dvd was existant and symlinked to /dev/cdrom

Now just to get gmplayer running.

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Okay, I just apt-getted xine and it works fine, and personally I am starting to prefer it.

This is awesome, Fedora Core 3 kicks window's fscking arse, im going to the braggers forum.

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After an initial install of Fedora 3 you want to do an update (apt-get dist-upgrade). I suggest throwing away up2date and yum and setting up apt from Dag's site:

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/

But that's just me. :) Specifically the "udev" package is what needs to be updated so you don't run into the cdrom symlink issue (this is a standard Fedora update). I have seen this question 2,000 times now. :) Also for gmplayer click on preferences->video and select another video output device. xv works great for me. Also, I like Goggle for DVD, but again that's just me. You can get that from my apt repository:

viewtopic.php?t=1326

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I already have apt-get, its part of my religeon, I have been using it for... since you mentioned it either on this site or on the MES, cannot remember.

I want to run an apt-get update, but I was already over the 6GB download limit downloading Fedora Core 3, im probably 2GB or 3GB over (excess downloads are $3AUD per GB which is pretty cheap anyway when I (err my dad) pay $35 per month).

Basically I will run it in about 6 days when the billing and all is done so I have a fresh quota, because my father bills the excess out of my pocket money, which means: less cigarettes. Because I don't get much pocket money anyway.

I need a job, then I will upgrade the plan to 1500/1500.

At the moment I get 256/64 (on the plan), but the telco are giving me freebies at 1500/64 for some reason, when that stops I am going to have to put some serious limits on things.

I will upgrade that package.