Thanks Gavin. This libcss did the trick and I am able to play the same DVD disc now.
--Vincent On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Vincent Yau wrote: > > > When I tried to play DVD, the screens are all scrambled. These are > > legitimate DVDs I bought in stores. > > When I play the same DVD on my macbook, it works fine. > > Most movies sold on DVD are encrypted using a scheme called CSS. These is > a library for Linux, sometimes called DeCSS, libcss or libdvdcss2. This > package allows Linux video programs to decrypt the DVD and play it. If you > don't already have this, you're going to need it. > > As there are questions about the legality of libdvdcss2, ubuntu cannot > redistribute it. It's not too tough to install though. > > Load this link and go to the section headed "Install libdvdcss2 and w32 > video codecs in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)" and all should become a little > clearer. > > > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-mplayer-and-multimedia-codecs-libdvdcss2w32codecsw64codecs-in-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron.html > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
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