Hi gang. I just tried to put the classic movie "Willow" into my DVD drive. I got a prompt that indicated a multimedia cd had been inserted, and would I like to open it with Kaffeine. "Sure!" I said, but then Kaffeine complained it didn't have the codec... A message appeared stating "This version of Xine lacks support for playing DVD discs for legal reasons", and gave a reference to a URL for more detail (http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/xine_dvd.html). So, it looks as though there are no DVD movie players available.
<rant> What kind of Crock is this? I own a legal copy, and simply want to watch it on my computer - how is this "legally" different than putting it in my DVD player connected to the TV? And why is it I can play DVD's under Windows then? I have to say I am VERY disappointed - but not with Suse (or the Open Source community) per se - I suspect they are simply victims of the RIAA/Movie industry legal juggernaut. Well, too easy - I now refuse to buy any DVDs until I can watch them under Linux. Guess that kinda backfired on them.... (realistically, this won't matter at all to them, but at least I feel like I've made my stand). </rant> I guess I'm off to visit Google and see what I can find on this topic... Any tips you might have for me are appreciated... Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
