Play DVD's

[Oheck!]

Silly question i know but would someone take pity on an old n00b and tell me how i can play DVD's please.

[devils casper]

Which Linux Distro do you have?

[Oheck!]

Hi DC
Should have mentioned it in my original post. I am running Mandriva Spring.

[devils casper]

you need to install libdvdcss, check this link and follow instructions to setup main, contrib, updates and plf repos. Open GUI software manager, search for libdvdcss and install it.

[Oheck!]

I opened Software Manager and after a search found the following:

libdvdcss2-1.2.9-3plf2007.0.i586 (already installed)
And
libdvdcss2-devel-1.2.9-3plf2007.0.i586 (not installed)

But couldn't find: libdvdcss

[devils casper]

install VLC player.
execute this

urpmi libdvdplay0 wxvlc vlc-plugin-a52 vlc-plugin-ogg vlc-plugin-mad libmatroska0

[Cabhan]

That output means that you do have libdvdcss installed. The first hit is just all the version information and such.

To explain what devils_casper is telling you to do:

libdvdcss is a library that allows a DVD program to bypass the CSS (acronym for "Content Scramble System") encryption that DVDs use. VLC player is then a media player that can play DVDs. The combination of these can play DVDs that you might rent or buy.

[Oheck!]

Have tried running the command below:
urpmi libdvdplay0 wxvlc vlc-plugin-a52 vlc-plugin-ogg vlc-plugin-mad libmatroska0

but all i get is: bash: urpmi command not found

[Cabhan]

I believe that you need root privileges to run urpmi. Run the 'su' command to be come root, and then try again.

[Oheck!]

I have just tried to run the code using root privileges and got this reply:

No package named libdvdplay0

No package named vlc-plugin-ogg