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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

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I Am Trying To Watch DVDs on Arch

This is the 1st time using Arch in a GUI (Gnome) & I did a Google / Wiki search for how to be able to play / watch DVDs on my Arch workstation? I have everything working and I have 'Totem' or as it's called "Movie Player" however I can't play or watch commercially purchased DVDs. Does anyone have any tips?

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: I Am Trying To Watch DVDs on Arch

Do you have libdvdcss installed?

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: I Am Trying To Watch DVDs on Arch

I always just install VLC, it seems to come with all that's needed to play anything (including DVDs) plus it looks & works fine on any DE/WM I used it on, even Windows

edit: Oh no I tell a lie, you still need to install libdvdcss. I just installed Arch like on 3 different machines this week with DVD playback and still managed to forget :-o

Last edited by Bralkein (2010-02-03 23:09:36)

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: I Am Trying To Watch DVDs on Arch

pacman -S smplayer

smplayer uses mplayer, and mplayer is awesome. you don't need libdvdcss either.

the problem with smplayer for you (because you use gnome) is that it requires Qt, but if that's not a problem for you then i would highly recommend using smplayer!

or you could of course just forget about smplayer and launch mplayer from the command line or use the default GUI that comes with mplayer (which sucks in my opinion).

also see: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD

Last edited by dyscoria (2010-02-04 00:04:42)

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: I Am Trying To Watch DVDs on Arch

I don't think mplayer comes with a default gui anymore. The mplayer package is run from the command line.
You can also try gnome-mplayer.

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surfed

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From: Vienna Austria

Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 86

Re: I Am Trying To Watch DVDs on Arch

You also could just search the forums or the wiki. Searching the wiki for DVD results in this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD
and you would find a solution faster than waiting for someone to respond to this question.

ninian

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: I Am Trying To Watch DVDs on Arch

Gnome-mplayer and Vlc get my votes (always install libdvdcss anyway).
Vlc seems the best for commercial DVDs, but I need Gnome-mplayer to also play .amv files.