They all have support for avi, mpeg, and vobs (not encrypted) and many other formats. DVD is supported in mplayer and Xine by default. But encrypted dvds are not. I have several unencrypted dvds which I have made myself from my video camera. and they play with defaults. To add dvd encrypted support you must install libdvdcss, and thats all.
I agree, there should be unencrypted support. On the other hand, for most others it won't make a difference since all their dvd's are encrypted.
Maybe some one could explain why we don't do it that way. I don't know what the legal problem is exaclty. Maybe I don't know something
Isn't decrypting dvd's without a license against the law in most countries?
Yes but when you have no internet connection you rely and a stiffy or memstick, To install the players involve solving dependancies which means it could take you a up to a week of transporting packages from work to home before you have downloaded all the goodies that you need to get the player working.
Without an internet connection you pretty much have this problem with _any_ package that you need which is not included on the dvd.
If I only had to add libdvdcss like mandrake and many others then it would make life so much better. Bear in mind there is no list some where that tells you what dependancies to expect. So for me I have learn't but for others who are new to linux, If the a few more things worked out of box we would need a new mailing list to cope with all our supporters from south africa.
One needs xine, xine-lib and libdvdcss I think. There, ask the guys responsible
for www.fedorafaq.org to put that in, and these issues are solved.
