On Tuesday 20 July 2004 22:06, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 22:02 +0100, Jim Higson wrote: > > I've played quite a few DVDs before, but with one I hired today I get the > > message in Xine (or Kaffeine): > > > > The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. > > Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your > > country laws (sic), you can or can't install/use libdvdcss > > to be able to read this disc, which you bought. > > (Media stream scambled/encrypted) > > > > I have libdvdcss installed, xine is refusinig to use it. > > > > This is odd. For a start I don't know how Xine knows what country I live > > in (the uk) and I think the message was more aimed at people living in > > the US, where, by my understanding, copyright law favours large companies > > more. > > I think you are misinterpreting the message. It looks like they are not > saying you can't use libdvdcss, they are saying that depending on where > you live, installing and using libdvdcss may be considered illegal. > > I suppose it is possible that xine was compiled to not use libdvdcss, > which would mean it doesn't matter if you have the library installed. If > that's the case, rebuilding xine srpm with libdvdcss-devel installed may > do the trick, or you may have to muck with the srpm for xine to turn on > a switch or something... I've just had a look using Synaptic and the package xine-lib on my system has a dependency on libdvdcss, so I think xine was compiled to use it. I'm using packages from the usual repositories - main fedora, livna etc.
