Enable DVD and MPEG Playback In SUSE Linux Some people are having a bit of trouble getting DVD Playback to work in SUSE 10.1. Below is a tutorial that should be of some help. Although it may look like a lot of steps, everything should only take you about 10-15 minutes. This tutorial assumes that you have SUSE 10.1 installed and running. If you are in the process of installing SUSE you should make sure that you install each of the eight packages listed below during the course. If you already have SUSE installed on your system, open YaST Once you have YaST open, select "Software Management" . In Software Management search for the following programs below and just place a check mark next to them. After you have made all of your selections you may click on the Accept button to begin the install of the packages. Be sure to have your disk handy. 1. Kaffeine under "All of KDE" 2. KDEmultimedia3-video-xine under "All of KDE" 3. xine-Lib under "Gnome System" 4. xinetd under "Network and Server" 5. xine-ui under "Multimedia" 6. libdvdnav under "Gnome System" 7. libdvdread under "Gnome System" 8. wine under "Office Applications" Now, you are required to download the following packages from our website. You can use Konquer, Firefox, Mozilla or whatever you feel comfortable with . We advise you to create a folder on your desktop called dvd_appz to save the files in, that you download below. 1. libdvdcss-1.2.8-2.network.i386.rpm 2. libdvbpsi4-0.1.5-1.pm.1.i586.rpm 3. libxine1-1.1.0cvs-051002.i686.rpm 4. xine-mozilla-plugin-0.2-051004.i586.rpm 5. libmp4v2-1.4.1-3.i586.rpm 6. w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm 7. xvid-1.1.0-0.pm.4.i686.rpm After you have complete your download, you will need to open the Konsole Terminal . To do this, you can either click on the 3rd icon in the lower left of your screen on the taskbar or click on the start button (1st green icon on your taskbar at your lower left) then scroll up to System > Terminal > Konsole. Now we will need to log in as root. To do this you must type "su" without the quotes and hit the enter key. Next you will have to enter the root password and then press enter. Inside the Konsole screen, you will need to navigate to the folder that you stored all the downloaded rpms to. To do this, type the following without the quotes : "cd Desktop/dvd_appz" and press the enter key. "ls" and press the enter key. You will now see all 7 rpm packages listed. To install the 1st rpm, you will need to type the following without the quotes: "rpm -Uhv libdvdcss-1.2.8-2.network.i386.rpm" and press the enter key. Tip - If you type up to 9 letters and press the tab key, the rest of the command will be inserted for you. Now the system will install the package. When this is complete, you will see the following screen. After you see the above screen, you're ready to install the 2nd rpm. (Some people prefer to work with a clean screen after executing commands or installs, and if this is the case with you, you can type clear and then press enter. Then you can type ls and then press enter so that you can list the packages in the directory again). To install the 2nd rpm type the following without the quotes: "rpm -Uhv libdvbpsi4-0.1.5-1.pm.1.i586.rpm" and press the enter key. To install the 3rd rpm, you will need to type the following without quotes: "rpm -Uhv libxine1-1.1.0cvs-051002.i686.rpm" and press the enter key. To install the 4th rpm, you will need to type the following without quotes: "rpm -Uhv xine-mozilla-plugin-0.2-051004.i586.rpm" and press the enter key. To install the 5th rpm, you will need to type the following without quotes: "rpm -Uhv libmp4v2-1.4.1-3.i586.rpm" and press the enter key. To install the 6th rpm, you will need to type the following without quotes: "rpm -Uhv w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm" and press the enter key. To install the 7th rpm, you will need to type the following without quotes: "rpm Uhv xvid-1.1.0-0.pm.4.i686.rpm" and press the enter key. Congratulations! You just installed all the necessary packages needed to playback retail DVDs and mpeg files. To verify, simply open YaST > Software Management. Then inside the filter box, select "Installation Summary" and you will see all 7 packages. To play an mpeg file, locate the file and right-click on it with the right-mouse button. A menu wills pop-up. Now scroll down and highlight open with and select Kaffeine or Noatun or Kaboodle or xine. Any of these will work. For a Retail DVD, insert the disk into the DVD drive, a pop-up menu will open. Select "Play DVD with Kaffeine" and the movie will start. To use Xine, click on the start menu (1st green icon on the taskbar at your lower left), scroll up to Multimedia > Video Player > xine Once xine opens, insert the DVD into the drive. One of two things will happen: 1: At the pop-up menu select "Do Nothing". On the xine player click on the "DVD" tab button on the player and sit back and enjoy the movie. 2: xine will take control and start the movie automatically. By default, this action should happen. But in any event, click on the "DVD" tab button on the player and sit back and enjoy the movie. Author - Felix Cumpian Jr. Editor - Dennis Newsome 09/04/06 We would like to mention a special thanks to Felix Cumpian Jr. for his thoughthful work on this article. If you have any questions or comments about this article feel free to contact us. 09/11/06 Alternative to instructions above (submitted by Mr. Hristov - Thank you very much for your contribution!): A simple .sh file will do the trick much easier.

Below is a (non-tested version) of a file install_dvd_playback.sh

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#!/bin/sh
cd ~/Desktop
mkdir dvd_appz
cd dvd_appz

WEBROOT="http://www.pctech101.com/dvd_playback/files"

wget $WEBROOT/libdvdcss-1.2.8-2.network.i386.rpm
wget $WEBROOT/libdvbpsi4-0.1.5-1.pm.1.i586.rpm
wget $WEBROOT/libxine1-1.1.0cvs-051002.i686.rpm
wget $WEBROOT/xine-mozilla-plugin-0.2-051004.i586.rpm
wget $WEBROOT/libmp4v2-1.4.1-3.i586.rpm
wget $WEBROOT/w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm
wget $WEBROOT/xvid-1.1.0-0.pm.4.i686.rpm

sudo rpm -Uhv \
libdvdcss-1.2.8-2.network.i386.rpm \
libdvbpsi4-0.1.5-1.pm.1.i586.rpm \
libxine1-1.1.0cvs-051002.i686.rpm \
xine-mozilla-plugin-0.2-051004.i586.rpm \
libmp4v2-1.4.1-3.i586.rpm \
w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm \
xvid-1.1.0-0.pm.4.i686.rpm


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Save the file to your local disk and then execute it
$ sh ./install_dvd_playback.sh Also See: x86, x86_64, PPC - What's the difference? Playing DVD and Multimedia Files on Debian GNU/Linux