-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun August 15 2004 22:19, Shawn wrote: > 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. You will need the libdvdcss - make sure you get the open source one. Once you have installed that and if you are still having problems, uninstall the Suse xine and kaffine and install the native versions. That will cure it. > <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 think the biggest reason that Suse has changed their policy on the operation of encrypted DVDs is the fact that they are now owned by Novell.....
Neil - -- Neil Bower Registered User # 323470 ( http://counter.li.org ) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBID72L5PebEz22pURAkdwAJ99coeBmbuXETz0FiSBVY8zmoGzlgCcCfJv 9Z85EzR9ZQx1s2V6xyyi3A8= =UJ9o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
