On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 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.
Not a problem. You can get a real version of Xine for SuSE from http://packman.links2linux.org/index.php4?action=cat&cat=16 you can then get libdvdcss2 from http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/index.html This should allow you to play DVDs in Linux. There are other OSS DVD players available such as: VideoLAN: http://www.videolan.org/ MPlayer: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html Ogle: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ > <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> The issue is not with the legality of your DVD. The problem is that DVDs are encrypted to make them harder to pirate. In order for a player to decrypt dvds, you have to buy a licence from the Japanese DVD cartel. This is why there are no legal problems with using a standalone dvd player, or a commercial player for Windows or MacOS. The problem is that open source developers cannot get a licence and open source the decryption program. There is software called decss which does de-scramble DVDs, but it is in legal limbo in many jurisdictions. There are also two distributions that do come with commercial dvd players. Turbolinux 10f comes with powerdvd (see http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=73&perpage=1&pagenum=1 for more info.). Linspire comes with LinspireDVD (see http://www.linspire.com/lindows_dvd_info.php for more info.). Intervideo the makers for WinDVD have also been talking about a Linux player for a long time http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/LinDVD.jsp Jesse _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
