On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:38:42PM -0800, David M. Cook wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:32:07PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > > > I've just downloaded Gnu xine to my FC3 box to watch (legally rented) > > movies. I can get a nice FBI dire warning, but it says I don't have > > enough rights for the other files. Is this DCSS in action? > > > > Is there a plug in? > > It's a long thread, someone must have mentioned http://freshrpms.net > Their stuff has always worked well for me. > > On my powerbook I use dvdbackup to decrypt and copy DVDs to my HD so I can > watch (then erase, honest) them later. Apple's DVD player can "play" the > resulting directory structure as if it were the original DVD. I'd like to > have a Linux player that can do that (not just play the raw files). >
Thanks, Dave. If nothing else, I now know about dvdbackup to use for my PERFECTLY LEGAL back up activities which haven't commenced and may never, so if you're from the Justice Department, don't raid my home, please. As an update, VideoLAN actually had a dependency go-round for me. I suspect that lots of the video/audio libraries are on the FC3 extras CD because this box had an 'everything' install. VideoLAN said to use --force and --nodeps (sounds close to rape), which I did happily; it loads, but doesn't do movies. With some persistent googling and wget, I've found and downloaded the contents of the extras directory at RedHat. I plan to install it over the next couple of days (Tuesdays are busy evenings for me). Maybe I'll have movies-2-go soon. This is all very good training for when I eventually make myself a MythTV box. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
