Playing Movie DVDs and Music CDs

[hal8000]

OK, I've got several hdinstalled PCs and I use them for coding and teaching computer science. So, I've only used CDs and DVDs and backup devices or as bootable live discs. Now, I realize that I never used KNOPPIX to play Music or watch Movies! How do I do this on a hdinstalled PC?

TIA,
AJG

Can you be more articulate? Do you mean you have knoppix installed on a hard drive and want to watch movies, or watch them from a live linux CD?

Either way its the same answer, if youre running from a live CD then obviously the machine needs a second DVD/CD reader.
Software to play CD's is already on knoppix 5.11, take your pick from multimedia.
To watch DVD's you may first have to install libdvdcss from synaptic or the win32codecs package, as you dont specify any
video formats you're wanting to watch. Mplayer, Xine are players that can use to watch your media with, but if its a live CD then makes sure you have plenty of RAM.