On Friday 17 January 2003 4:09 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > I would have thought that after the ruling last week that it is > perfectly reasonable and legal to watch videos that you have bought > and paid for, it would now be easy to find information about DeCSS, > but it turns out not to be so. Since I find that my DVD player > will play some disks and not others I decided that now was the time > to look at this, but all the addresses I have seen seem to have > been taken off the websites, closed down or moved away. > > Assuming this is no longer liable to embarrass Mandrake in any way, > can anyone, on list or offlist, point me at a source?
Well, I do'nt have a source for an howto, but this is how I do it. I install the dvdnav, decss, and other plugin stuff that mplayer config can pick up like real and ffmpeg and win32 codecs. I use: libdvdcss & devel rpm from ogle, a divx4linux source tarball, and a libdvdread & devel rpm from probably that big xine site. Then you need to recompile mplayer or xine. I suggest mplayer cuz it's the easiest. Then it will read encrypted dvds. I even have my dvd player scsi emulated and it makes no diff. You might need to make a symlink from it to /dev/dvd. But it's really nothing much to it. You may have some trouble with mplayer not starting at first - check your font permissions. Good luck. hth, -s
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