On Sunday, January 14, 2007 @ 1:41 AM, Hans van Middendorp wrote:

>Install libdvdcss. Videolan has it in the suse repo

>Op zondag 14-01-2007 om 01:20 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Greg
>Wallace:
>> I've never played a DVD on my Linux machine and would like to know how.
>> I've attempted to play one with the 4 different players that are
installed
>> on my machine.  No luck with any of them.  Here are the results --
>> 
>> Kaffiene -- Nothing but a black screen comes up, though the timer seems
to
>> indicate that it is playing (clock is running)
>> 
>> Noatune -- Crashes with signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
>> 
>> RealPlayer -- Crashes saying "The player does not have the capabilities
to
>> play back this content".  Under details it says "Unknown Fileformat"
>> 
>> Xine -- Says "The stream " filename " use an unsupported codec:  Audio
>> codec: AC3 (0x0).  Start playback anyway?"  If I click "Yes", I get a
black
>> screen, similar to what I see under Kaffiene.
>> 
>> Do I need to install some additional software to get this to work?  If I
try
>> to play it on my doze machine it says I need to purchase a decoder.  Why
the
>> hell should I have to buy a decoder to play something that plays in the
>> DVD/VCR machine?  I'm just trying to play it, not make copies of it or
>> anything like that, so what's the diff?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Greg Wallace

Well, I installed libdvdcss from Videolan but still no luck.  When I put the
DVD in the player, I get a pop-up with the option to play it with Kaffeine.
If I select that, I get --

"The version of Xine (used by Kaffeine) has only a reduced set of supported
codecs.  It is not able to play DVDs."
"Read //en.opensuse.org/XINE for further details"

When I go to that opensuse web page, it basically says you can't get there
from here, so to speak.  I know that's not the case since many of you guys
are playing DVDs, so what else do I need to do to get this beast to work.

Thanks,
Greg Wallace


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