CD's and DVD's

[Eric-A]

Hi all, I am having a problem with Fedora 11 not playing CD/DVD in any of the players. It errors out saying I need some kind of plugin. Any ideas on this?

[daark.child]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Can you post the exact error messages? What kind of cd/dvds are they?

[Eric-A]

I'm trying to play regular music CD's and movies on DVD's. The error is (MPEG-1 Layer 3 not installed).... I have no idea what that is or how to fix it, but all the players in Fedora will play .ogg and .wav files only.

[reed9]

Fedora has a strict policy about including non-free software in the distro, so patent encumbered technologies like mp3 are not supported out of the box.

You can get most everything you need from the rpmfusion repository.

If you're using Rhythmbox or Totem for your mp3s, after enabling rpmfusion do

su -c 'yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly'

[reed9]

Oh, commercial DVDs are another can of worms. You need libdvdcss2.

su -c 'rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libdvdcss2-1.2.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm'

[Eric-A]

okay, I installed all that and .mp3's and movies play if on the hard drive. But the CD/DVD device makes the desktop re-boot so to speak rendering the two cd drives useless. It doesn't give me an error screen to post to you. What next?

[reed9]

Makes the desktop reboot "so to speak"? Can you be more specific? You insert a CD or DVD and the computer reboots?

[Eric-A]

what I mean is when I put in a music CD, the desktop icons disappear then re-appear repeating everytime I want to click on the CDROM icon. All my Data CD's and DVD's work just fine.

[devils casper]

Have you tried VLC Player? It supports most of the media formats.

yum -y install vlc

[reed9]

Can you put in an audio CD and post the output of

dmesg | tail