Playing Dvds On Ppcs

Okay guys, after a long hiatus i'm working on getting my openSUSE 10.3 Pismo fully set up again. Thanks to the help i've already received here i am almost where i want to be (which is a fully featured laptop that does everything a windows machine can do). i have sound, wireless internet, can play .mp3s, and some great applications for graphics, etc.

the thing i need to work on right now, is acquiring the ability to play DVDs. thanks to oldcpu i have libdvdcss2 installed, but VLC, Xine, Kaffeine, and MPlayer all refuse to play DVDs. any ideas or things i can check?

thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

-dan

i have libdvdcss2 installed, but VLC, Xine, Kaffeine, and MPlayer all refuse to play DVDs. any ideas or things i can check?[/b]

Check if you have libdvdread3. Also check for w32codec-all.

Check if you have libdvdread3. Also check for w32codec-all.
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hey there oldcpu, thanks for the reply!

i do have libdvdread3 installed, but when i search the repositories for w32codec-all, i can't find one. can't find one by googling it either so i'm guessing maybe there isn't one for the ppc architecture??? if somebody knows of one, please let me know.

anyway, following some advice PMed to me by verxa, i checked and libxine1 was not installed. i installed it and upgraded kaffeine and totem to the latest versions, and everything is working now i am glad to say.

you guys have come through for me again!!! i really do thank you for your help. this community is great!

-dan

p.s. oldcpu, that other link you gave me about openSUSE in general was excellent reading.

when i search the repositories for w32codec-all, i can't find one. can't find one by googling it either so i'm guessing maybe there isn't one for the ppc architecture??? [/b]

I did a quick check, and I think you are correct. My recommendation does not appear the best here for w32codec's on a PPC. Perhaps some other PPC users could chime in here.

i checked and libxine1 was not installed. i installed it and upgraded kaffeine and totem to the latest versions, and everything is working now i am glad to say.[/b]

Thats interesting to note. Thanks for sharing your solution.

You may also wish to try mplayer (again) with smplayer as a front end to it.
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

There is a packman packager rpm/packaged PPC version of smplayer, and its possible by using it as a front end to mplayer, you will get mplayer working with DVD videos.
http://packman.links2linux.de/package/smplayer