DVD Playback (legally) (was:Re: SL 6 Alpha)

2010-11-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 08:46:54 pm Vern Wingard wrote: > I have just tried to play a DVD and mplayer says that i need a plugin. qby > ideas on how to get dvd playback? The Fluendo DVD player, which is commercial non-free software, should install ok on RHEL6/CentOS6/SL6 (I've run it on F12

Re: 'mesg n' doesn't stop 'write'

2010-11-24 Thread Shane Voss
The man page for write (and for wall on another well known distro) mention that mesg does not block the super-user. I suspect this may be the cause of the confusion. Shane I tested it on i386 SL5.1 with 'write yellin pts/6', where "yellin" is my username on that computer and "pts/6"

Re: 'mesg n' doesn't stop 'write'

2010-11-24 Thread Steven J. Yellin
I tested it on i386 SL5.1 with 'write yellin pts/6', where "yellin" is my username on that computer and "pts/6" is the ttyname on which I had typed 'mesg n'. The 'write ...' command was blocked to that terminal, though not to any of my other terminals for which 'mesg' returned "y". So as f

'mesg n' doesn't stop 'write'

2010-11-24 Thread Faye Gibbins
Anyone know why 'mesg n' doesn't stop 'write' anymore on SL5.x? Faye -- - Faye Gibbins, Sys Admin. GeoS KB. Linux, Unix, Security Beekeeper - The Apiary Project, KB - www.bees.ed.ac.uk --

Re: DVD players - was Re: SL 6 Alpha

2010-11-24 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 24.11.2010 08:50, schrieb Dr Andrew C Aitchison: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Vern Wingard wrote: > >> I have just tried to play a DVD and mplayer says that i need a >> plugin. qby >> ideas on how to get dvd playback? > > You probably need libdvdcss and friends, which Red Hat don't ship. > The epel a

DVD players - was Re: SL 6 Alpha

2010-11-24 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Vern Wingard wrote: I have just tried to play a DVD and mplayer says that i need a plugin. qby ideas on how to get dvd playback? You probably need libdvdcss and friends, which Red Hat don't ship. The epel and rpmforge repos should have a copy, but maybe not yet. Or you m