DVD Players

Unfortunately, at this moment Sun Java Desktop does not support DVD playback. The Movie Player (called Totem) supports on gstreamer for DVD playback and the current version of gstreamer in JDS lacks the plugins for DVD playback. At this moment we do not know if a future release will contain the plugins or not.

In order to be able to play DVDs on JDS, we advise you to follow the next workaround. Pleae note that you can follow this procedure at your own risk. If any errors are introduced, or if the suggested workaround does not completely work, Sun Microsystems will not help you fix it. Also please note that Sun Microsystems does not maintain any of the software mentioned below and therefore cannot be held responsible for any errors or bugs in them.

DVD playback can be enabled by installing another movie player, e.g. Xine or MPlayer. A possible procedure for installing Xine may be this. Download these rpms : ( or the most current versions)

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/curl-7.10.3-1.i386 .rpm
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/libdvdcss-1.2.8-1. network.i386.rpm
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/w32codec-0.52-1.i3 86.rpm
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/xine-ui-0.9.23cvs- 031230.i586.rpm
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/libxine1-1_cvs-040 109.i586.rpm

Install the termcap package by clicking on the Launch button and then Applications -> system Tools -> Install/Remove Software. Next upgrade the installed curl version on JDS using

rpm -Uhv curl-7.10.3-1.i386.rpm

Then, install the other packages as root using

rpm -i libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.network.i386.rpm libxine1-1_cvs-040109.i586.rpm w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm xine-ui-0.9.23cvs-031230.i586.rpm

To play a DVD, start xine by opening a terminal window and typing

xine

In the xine toolbar click the DVD button to start playing a DVD.

As for cd burning, this can be done by double clicking the This Computer icon on the JDS desktop and the go to the Go menu and select Cd Recorder. Drag and drop any files to this window and hen click the Write To CD button. Please note that only the root user can burn CDs.

ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd