On Wednesday 12 February 2003 16:00, Jonathan Wright wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I've just installed Gentoo 1.4rc2 and upgraded everything, including
> kde-3.1.
>
> I'm trying to get my DVD player to work in Linux, but don't know how
> to go about it.
>
> I've done 'emerge xine-ui'. it all installed fine and I can play dvds
> without (i think) encryption, but when it comes to disks with
> encryption, it doesn't play (says something about an i/o error).
>
> The problem i've got is that the firmware on the drive and been
> 'cracked' so that it'll play any region - it's regionless. In
> windows, i need to use DVD Region Encoder to get it to work (it
> simulated the region needed for the disk).
>
> Anyone got any idea how i can get around this. I've got both region 1
> and region 2 dvds. btw, it's a pioneer 116 (i think again :).
Most likely your xine doesn't have support for decoding.
Check emerge -s xine and look for these entries
* media-plugins/xine-d4d
Latest version available: 0.3.2-r2
Latest version installed: 0.3.2-r2
Size of downloaded files: 281 kB
Homepage: http://members.fortunecity.de/captaincss/
Description: Captain CSS plugin for the xine media player.
* media-plugins/xine-d5d
Latest version available: 0.2.7-r1
Latest version installed: 0.2.7-r1
Size of downloaded files: 275 kB
Homepage: http://www.captaincss.tk/
Description: Captain CSS menu plugin for the xine media player
PS. I prefer ogle for DVD movies it's so simple to use simply open disk
from file menu and then it's like using physical DVDPlayer.
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