On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 14:22, Ian Hilliard wrote: > Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:08:42 -0400 > From: Clint Harshaw <clint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: DVD Playback Problem with ogle, xine, mplayer > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <40EC2E1A.2030908@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > I've installed a new Teac DVD/CDRW in my Fedora Core 1 machine. I can't > get DVD movies to play. The video card is an nVidia with their drivers > installed. The processor is a Celeron 1.7MHz with 256MB of RAM. > Okay... Are CDs readable in the drive? Did the drive require a region code setting before first use? I've had to set the region code on 2 out of 3 DVD drives, but not on a DVD*RW. There is at least one linux utility to do this. I'm sorry, I can't remember what it is. > Here are the things I have tried along with the results I see happen: > > I've installed xine* and ogle* with yum install xine* ogle*. > I've also installed libdvd* using yum install libdvd*. > I've installed mplayer* using yum install mplayer*. > > < rest snipped > > > The problems look like the one that I had before building libdecss and > libdvdnav. I got the sources from links at the ogle home site. What exactly are the players telling you? Error messages, etc. > > It was then a simple matter of unzipping the sources into a directory in > my home directory. Then running ./configure && make. On completion sudo > make install. > > I noticed that the libs needed to be in the lib path, which required > editing /etc/ld.so.conf and putting in the line /usr/local/lib > > In the end, it is necessary to do an sudo /sbin/ldconfig > That sounds correct. The RPMs from FreshRPMs might have been easier. > After that, you should be able to view DVDs. Could you? > > Just a word of note: libdecss is illegal in the USA, where the DMCA puts > the wishes of large corporations ahead of the valid rights of people to > view their legally purchased DVDs on computers running operating systems > other than Windows and MacOS. We'll get over it. I wonder how the commercial linux-based DVD player/recorders get around the DMCA? Bob...
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