Hi there,
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 06:48, yuri wrote:
> You demonstrate remarkable literacy skills for someone so young. :-)
Thank you. There is no point to me in communicating in a way unable to be understood...I also used to make grammatical and spelling corrections to anything my 3rd form english teacher got wrong, which unsurprisingly did not impress him... :-)
This means CSS on some discs is difficult/impossible to decrypt. With the legality
Well that explains why I couldn't play Red Dwarf when I could play several other DVDs.
I have found libdvdcss to be somewhat intermittent too.
I have come to the conclusion that some (recent) DVDs have some sectors with deliberate checksum errors, thus giving an I/O error on a computer.
I'm running libdvdcss 1.2.8-2, which is the most recent to be found. Its dated april 9, 2004. Many new movies I've tried post that date have not worked at all, or sporadically. If I fall back to earlier libdvdcss versions the situation is worse, so that latest one is the best...
You can now buy Linspire with a legal and licenced DVD player incorporated. http://www.linspire.com/lindows_dvd_info.php
I wish I knew if it: a) was viable with other distributions, b) worked properly.
Interesting. Linspire is $5 at computerbroker, but I'd imagine all the commercial stuff is missing in the download version...
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand.
