On Friday 01 Apr 2005 13:52, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I do not have a dvd player, but I have heard that it is possible to > use the computer dvd recorder to play dvd movies. Could somebody here > please give me some directions? > You can indeed. However, commercial dvds are encoded, and thanks to the legal implications Mandrake cannot give you the packages you need. PLF supply Mandrake packages to deal with this situation. So -
1) Go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and follow the instructions there to make sure you have a plf source - while you are there it would pay you to grab one source from each of the sections listed. A long chain of commands will be given to you to paste into a root console. It does take a while for that to complete, so be patient until it has finished. Using urpmi from the command line or Software Installer as a gui will now give you a whole raft of possibilities you didn't have before. 2) If you have xine installed, uninstall it. 3) Get the xine packages from the plf site - if you use Software Installer make sure you have enabled Maximum Information. You also need decss and any codecs you can find, to give you maximum flexibility. Install them in the usual way and you should be fine. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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