On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 05:30, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > I have a Creative DVD drive, not a decoder card. A plain > DVD drive, the one you can ordinarily buy from normal > computer stores like Villman, is sufficient for playing > AudioCDs, MP3s, VCDs and DVDs. > > On boot up, my system reports the presence of the DVD drive > as follows: > > hdc: CREATIVEDVD5240E-1, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ... > hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
i was assuming you had a decoder as you were saying you needed em8300/dxr3. my bad... :P > I believe that xine already has deCSS (I am not sure about this), > since I have still to try xine on CDs from different regions, and > I do not have so many of these (they're expensive!). I only have to > read the documentation that came with xine-0.9.12 (but time is such > a rare commodity) to ascertain that xine is really region-free. most likely xine is region free as long as your drive is regionfree. most dvd drives have firmware updates to make them regionfree. thank you kind sir for sharing your experience in DVD viewing in xine. i still haven't found a dvd playback solution in linux that works for me. i just gotta keep searching... :)
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