Hi,
Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
I run Lenny on a Dell Insprion 640m laptop that uses a Sony Optiarc
AD-5540A DVD player. The player had its DVD region code set to 3 so I
couldn't play India-only DVDs (region code 5) on it.
Regionset smoothly changed the dr
You can try regionset.
Web page:-http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
>
> I run Lenny on a Dell Insprion 640m laptop that uses a Sony Optiarc
> AD-5540
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Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
>
> Totem and VLC fail too. The disk is probably okay because it played
> on someone's Windows desktop. What is going wrong? Can
Girish Kulkarni:
>
> Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
Do you have libdvdcss installed?
> Regionset smoothly changed the drive's region code to 5.
Are you aware that you usually cannot change the drive's region code an
arbitrary amount of times? At lea
; Hi,
>
> Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
>
> I run Lenny on a Dell Insprion 640m laptop that uses a Sony Optiarc
> AD-5540A DVD player. The player had its DVD region code set to 3 so I
> couldn't play India-only DVDs (region code 5) on it.
>
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
Do you have libdvdcss installed?
Thanks for the replies. I don't have libdvdcss installed. But now
I'm confused. I thought I shouldn't need libdvdcss if my drive'
On 2009-08-21 00:57, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
Do you have libdvdcss installed?
Thanks for the replies. I don't have libdvdcss installed. But now
I'm confused. I thought I shou
Girish Kulkarni:
>
> According to its authors, libdvdcss is "designed for accessing DVDs
> like a block device without having to bother about the decryption." I
> don't want to do that; I just want to decrypt what I should be able to
> decrypt.
>
> Or am I getting things wrong here?
Yes. Almost
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Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>> Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
>>
>> Do you have libdvdcss installed?
[...]
> According to its authors, libdvdcss is "desi
Jochen Schulz wrote:
> That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer,
> you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed
> descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like
> libdvdcss. The latter may be illegal in some countries. But at
Johannes wrote:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
>
>> That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer,
>> you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed
>> descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like
>> libdvdcss. The latter may be illega
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your
computer, you either have to run proprietary software (which
contains a licensed descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key
using something like libdvdcss.
Thanks for explaining. Although,
Giorgos Pallas schreef:
Johannes wrote:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer,
you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed
descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like
libdvdcss. The latter m
Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your
>> computer, you either have to run proprietary software (which
>> contains a licensed descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key
>> using something like libdvdcss.
>
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>> ite a player that circumvents CSS in order to play that DVD you
>> purchased. BS IMHO. Anyway, I don't know the law stuff regarding
>> libdvdcss2. I guess it is legal in some countries, and in some not...
>>
>> G.
> From the libdvdcss-faq (http://www.videolan.org/support/f
Johannes:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>
>> That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer,
>> you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed
>> descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like
>> libdvdcss. The latter may be illegal in som
Giorgos Pallas wrote:
> Of course playing a legally obtained DVD in itself is not something
> illegal. But technically speaking, in the course of playing it you may
> break other laws, for example the DMCA which says if I am not mistaken
> that breaking an encryption scheme is illegal. This makes
Johannes schreef:
Giorgos Pallas wrote:
Of course playing a legally obtained DVD in itself is not something
illegal. But technically speaking, in the course of playing it you may
break other laws, for example the DMCA which says if I am not mistaken
that breaking an encryption scheme is illegal
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
Will try installing libdvdcss later today and see if that helps me
play region 5 DVDs. But another question: libdvdcss is GPL'ed; why
is it not in any of the Debian repositories then? I'm also hoping
to find its legal status here in India.
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