2005/11/22, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mhac Janapin wrote: > > I have a stock Slack10.2 install. I'm using Xine. I can > > play some DVDs but there are some that I can't. It's > > major complain was that It can't play the data (or > > something) because I might not have the "rights" to play > > that OR that the disc is not in the drive. The DVD is > > an original one (legally bought) and I'm sure it's in > > the drive. ;) Anybody experiencing the same thing? What > > could be the problem here? Thanks for the insights. > > Try to install the infamous libdvdcss [1]
Why infamous? There appears to be some confusion between what the "infamous" DVD Jon [2] *allegedly* wrote and the library being distributed by the Videolan project. The first is DeCSS (which has been called libdecss) and the second is libdvdcss. Perhaps because of the confusion libdvdcss now appears to be more popular than DeCSS (at least according to the number of Google hits). > and configure Xine to use it. I use Xine on Gentoo with > this library and I haven't yet run across a DVD that could > be played on a standard player that was unplayable with > Xine (but some DVD's that refused to play on some standard > players but work with Xine, hehe). If you have a > dot-directory in your $HOME that's named .dvdcss (that > contains the CSS keys for all of the DVD's you've > succeeded in playing) then there might be some other > reason why you can't play the discs, and perhaps a little > more info is in order, e.g. versions of the various > plugins, codecs, and other software Xine depends on, your > DVD drive's make and model, etc. [1] http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Johansen _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
