Please mail DeCSS to me, I recently bought
a DVD and I have not attempted to setup under
Linux yet. This file would be most helpful.
Thanks, Donna
My address " [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount
>
> I have a copy of decss. Actually, injunction or no, I doubt it's that
> hard to find if you search, but if anybody is having trouble let me
> know and I'll mail it to you and/or post it temporarily on my web site.
>
> (I've never used it, mind you; I downloaded it as more of a political
> statement than anything else -- I don't have have a DVD drive.)
>
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> | I can pretty well verify that it does not work with DVD-RAM.
> | Which is OK. I don't yet have full information on making it
> | work, but I will post when I do.
> |
> | Most of those tools are in your 7.0 distro already (all they
> | could cram in without hiring another lawyer) I recommend browsing
> | the RPMs on the distro disks.
> |
> | If you are fortunate enough to have DeCSS (pre-injunction), you
> | can add that and likely play movies without a decoder, but then
> | decoder cards are fairly inexpensive these days,
> | except they have the annoying "regionalization" feature --
> | they'll decode only DVDs
> | prepared specifically for your "region". This allows the folks
> | to sell a DVD move 6 months later at three times the price just
> | across the border from you. And yes, if you buy a DVD Player in
> | Germany, it is not likely to play American DVDs.
> |
> | Civileme
> |
> |
> |
> | Vincent Danen wrote:
> | >
> | > Does Supermount work with DVD-ROM's under Linux? I installed an Acer
IDE
> | > DVD-ROM today and it made things go *extremely* slow until I commented
out
> | > the /etc/fstab entry for the device. The GIMP hung and all kinds of
other
> | > unpleasant things happened. Now I've got it so I have to manually
mount
> | > it and it seems to be ok. Any idea why this might be?
> | >
> | > Also, how do I get to view DVD movies under Linux? I looked at the
LiViD
> | > page and it's talking about patching the kernel for DVD fs support and
> | > whatnot, or else using a development kernel with it built in. Any
> | > suggestions on the best way to go about it? I've always been a little
> | > reluctant to mess with the kernel and I don't really like the idea of
> | > patching it. Is there a module or something I can just slap in there?
> | >
> | > Any info would be appreciated. I'd like to get this running under
Linux
> | > so I can show off to a few Windows users... =)
> | >
> | > --
> | > [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net
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> | > Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn:
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> |
> | --
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> | your host which is a network unto itself.
> --
> "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org
> Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents.
> Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
