I need help to find a DVD player!

[mrbjorn]

I just installed YDL on my PS3, i am very experience windows user, and first time Linux user. I was little surprised when i saw no movie player was in the OS. I see many post here how to download source code and compile players... And many says it works 1 case out of 10.

Well, do anyone know about any player to dowload which work? I just want to download an EXE file and play my DVD movies. Somethi g like media player in Windows Vista.

Regards

[jerryyyyy]

I ran into this researching the same issue. i have not decided what to do, but I am also experimenting with the Fedora distributions.

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxT ... Video.html

[mrbjorn]

Thanks, mplayer looks promising, but it seems it have to be compiled first. If u find a working exe please tell me

[CronoCloud]

In Linux we don't call our exectuable files ".exe's" we call them binaries. We download them in binary packages for our specific distributions (and hardware) In Yellow Dog, which is a Fedora based distribution, they are called RPM's. That stands for Red Hat Package Manager.

If you want an mplayer binary you'll want a PPC rpm.

Try looking here:

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/ppc/repodata/

I think there's a howto out there somehwere that will tell you how to add the livna repository to your yum configuration, oh yeah it's on these boards in this thread:

http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopi ... 51404042fb

[mrbjorn]

Thanks a lot for the links. The first one have many usueful applications, and i downloaded the Mplayer. But since i am all new to ydl, i havent grasp all basic things.

Like the ".lvn5" files? Is it a package of files? And what is it meant to add them to a "yum configuration", does YUM install these packages?

Lets say i have my file on a USB memeroy card, shall i run it from YDL then? I associate things with windows, how u run installations there.

[CronoCloud]

Like the ".lvn5" files? Is it a package of files? And what is it meant to add them to a "yum configuration", does YUM install these packages?

Suppose you download this file:

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/ppc/mplay ... n5.ppc.rpm

That's a PPC RPM from the livna repository for Fedora 5 (lvn5) Once you have it you would install it directly with rpm, not with yum. thusly:

rpm -ivh mplayer-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5.ppc.rpm

But I suggest you "fix" your yum repository entries first, because then you can install mplayer thusly:

yum install mplayer

not only would it install mplayer that way, it would also install any needed dependencies. By installing individual rpm's you have to install the dependencies yourself. You might want to:

man yum

and

man rpm

I know, I really hate referring people to man pages, but they're a starting point.

Lets say i have my file on a USB memeroy card, shall i run it from YDL then? I associate things with windows, how u run installations there.

Well if it's on a USB card, transfer it to the file system, then deal with it there.