On Wednesday 27 December 2006 07:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Libdvdcss is now installed but Kaffeine is telling me I do not have the > appropriate plugins to run protected movies. Any advice about what they > might be and where they are hiding to avoid my presence? > > John. > > Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 12:52:01PM +1100, john gibbons wrote: > > > > > >> I am having no luck trying to download and install libdvdcss2. Anyone > >> done any better? > >> > > > > What have you tried? > > > > libdvdcss is in livna, and as far as I can tell, that's the > > same thing as libdvdcss2 > > > > rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm > > yum install libdvdcss
Here be dragons ... I found the easiest solution (x86_64) was to install mplayer and use that for DVD and windows-media and wmv. Leave xine and friends alone. mplayer lacks DVD menus! mythtv's DVD player uses libdvdcss2 and has all the menu stuff (but mythtv is a trailer-load of hard work) The alternative is to update xine (the engine behind totem), but for me with x86_64 all of the codecs did not work. Everything can be made to work, but it leaves an aweful mess (I had 32bit xine and 32 related stuff from dim memory mad, speex, ImageMagik etc, really messy EasyUbuntu is probably the easiest route, but still a challange! This is a hard area, and all the winders conoisours (sorry bout the spellin) pounce on the weak area with glee. Probably 32bit ubuntu is the easiest to get going, then 32bit suse with packman repos, redhat, then x86_64 being the hardest. What is most frustrating is that everything can work. You can't get C to run; 3 people will say 'works for me' and NOT say A which does work for you, does not work for them. You get C to run and A won't and 3 other people say A works for me ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
