Playing video on Mageia 1.0
Mageia is a new Linux distribution forked from Mandriva. The first stable release was at the end of May, 2011, and I am just about to publish a review on the main site. This blog post is just to show what happened when I tried to play a video DVD on the GNOME desktop.
Inserting an unencrypted video led to this message prompt, which is nice. That’s how it should be. Totem, by the way, is the only video player installed.
Clicking OK in the previous image led to this one. So I clicked search, and …
It led to this. Cannot play an unencrypted DVD video. Not happy.
How about an encrypted video. No luck there either. Now, I have to figure out how to play video DVD’s on Mageia 1.0. An update will be posted soonest.
Nick on Jul 11, 2011
I was enthusiastic about this release, but it looks like they are going for the dogmatic way of doing things….I would love an open source alternative, but its not practical to lack these codecs for the time being. I would rather use Mint or Pinguy.
Im glad Mageia exists though…..it could be a base for geeks to develop that other geeks could use for a user friendly distro, but I WANT a distro that holds peoples hands and is noob friendly and does not require a hacking education or use of the command line on day one. I like all my media to work pain free.
Sorry you went this path. I like your community model, but you should include all the illegal codecs….ALL of them, without making people hunt for them.
ennael on Jun 13, 2011
Use Mageia Control Center and in Media management application, check “tainted” media. you will find there all needed stuff to play video
finid on Jun 14, 2011
Unfortunately, libdvdcss is not included, even with “tainted” loaded.
finid on Jun 14, 2011
Ok, I can now install libdvdcss2 and other codecs, so enabling “Tainted” repos is the first step towards playing videos on Mageia.