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>9. MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, and DVDs</H1
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>MPEG (the format used on DVDs) represents itself as an open standard,
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but most Linux distributions won't ship software that read it because of
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blocking patents held by MPEGLA. AVI and Apple QuickTime have proprietary
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codecs covered by patents, so most Linux distributions won't ship software
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that decodes them, either.</P
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>FC5 ships the GNOME project's official video player, <A
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>totem</A
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it <A
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HREF="http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-January/msg01239.html"
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>won't
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play DVDs</A
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is an error popup that says "Totem was not able to play this disc. No
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reason", but the problem is actually a known bug in gstreamer-0.10.</P
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>Unfortunately, the alternate front end xine is even more broken.
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It can be installed this way:</P
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> yum install xine xine-lib libdvdcss
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>Doing this will also install a number of support libraries, including
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the libdvdcss plugin that the xine people won't talk about on their site
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because they are too frightened of the DVDCCA's attack lawyers.</P
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>The 0.99.4 xine release displays an all-white window and does nothing
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(at least on my plain-vanilla Opteron machine using a nVidia
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GeForce2).</P
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