if you have problems palying audio cd's arch

Open up Vlc, Choose Media Open Disc; check radio button audio cd at disc selection; select the right hardware if you have more than one cd player attached.

Let audio cd's show up in Thunar:

Installation

It can be installed by running:

# pacman -S thunar-volman

Configuration

It can also be configured to execute certain actions when cameras and audio players are connected. After installing the plugin:

1. Launch Thunar and go to Edit -> Preferences
2. Under the 'Advanced' tab, check 'Enable Volume Management'
3. Click configure and check the following items:
   • Mount removable drives when hot-pluged.
   • Mount removable media when inserted.
4. Also make desired changes (see the example below)

Here's an example setting for making Amarok play an audio CD.

 Multimedia - Audio CDs: amarok --cdplay %d 

How to play DVD menu's with vlc or smplayer

With VLC I can use the menu of a DVD (not all, some protected dvd's won't play).
Open the directory and it will play the menu; I use the arrow keys to select a menu item and enter to start it.
In the playback menu of vlc you can select titles and then the chapters of the dvd.

SMplayer / MPlayer crash, exit code: 127

Errors with mplayer may be related to this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130197
I had this problem too. Solved it by extracting libx264.so.118 from
the previous version of x264 in var/cache/pacman/pkg and copying it to /usr/lib/.

The dvd menu in smplayer is activated by shift + arrow up, down left, right and entering or clicking to activate selection.

Saving MMS streams with Mimms or VLC

Mimms is a program to download mms streams

in Ubuntu activate universe repositories and then in terminall type:

$ sudo apt-get install mimms

Or install mimms via Synaptic.

In the HTML code of the page find the stream link ; when found type in terminal adjusting the names:

$ mimms mms://your-url/filename.wmv

If you have trouble finding the mms link, try to find it using your movie player your browser uses.




Downloading with VLC: activate VLC via or in your browser; then click File, Wizard, choose Transcode/Download to file (select radio button),next and choose Existing Playlist Item and next and choose Format, Done.