Get the following rpms from freshrpms.net and install them:
You will also need the ffmpeg package, consisting of the following rpms:
If you are interested in decrypting encrypted DVDs (that is, most of them), then install the libdvdcss package. Note for readers under the jurisdiction of US law: see the Legal section for an important notice regarding the legal status of libdvdcss in the United States.
For most of these programs, you also need to make a symbolic link from
/dev/dvd to the actual device file that represents your
DVD-ROM drive. For example, if your DVD-ROM drive is under
/dev/hdc, then you need to run (as root)
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
You may also wish to give all users read/write access to the DVD-ROM drive, so that any user can use it to read DVDs. To do this, run
chmod 666 /dev/dvd
after you have created the link in the previous step.
I also highly recommend configuring mplayer to use large fonts instead of the default fonts which are far too small to read on a TV screen:
/bin/mkdir -p ~/.mplayer/font
cp /usr/share/mplayer/iso-8859-1/arial-28/* ~/.mplayer/font
There are more fonts available at ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/, which you can play around with to see which ones you like.
If you are interested in creating SVCD format discs, then you will in addition to the above also need to install the following programs:
If you want to be able to rip existing subtitles out of a DVD, you'll need:
subrip program, included in the TOOLS/
subdirectory of the
mplayer
program but not installed by default.