Vlc

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VLC is a video player for Linux that plays "everything", including DVDs with menues.

Get it

SUSE Linux 11.4

  • yast2 -> Software -> Software Repositories -> Add -> Community Repositories -> Packman Repositories
  • open a console, issue
yast -i vlc

TroubleShooting

Can not open DVD

Symptom

If you get a message like

DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd".

Solution 1

Do the following as root

chmod 777 /dev/dvd /dev/sr0

Solution 2

Add the user you want to play DVDs with to the group cdrom (yes, for /dev/dvd). To do this, edit /etc/group. The group name may differ, to find out the correct one do a

ll /dev/dvd

or

ll /dev/sr0

Sound problems

See troubleshooting sound.

See also