On Monday 13 February 2006 20:41, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 13 February 2006 17:26, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >>On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 00:36:40 +0200, > >> > >> Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>It can never even start playing a DVD movie because there is > >>>no URI or URL or something like that to handle "dvd://" well > >>>actually it is /dev/hdc but anyway > >> > >>The device specification is different than the device type. You shouldn't > >>have to specify the device unless you have more than one dvd player. > >>If you don't tell it you are playing a DVD then things don't work > >>correctly. My memory is that the CSS keys don't get extracted from the > >> DVD and you end up seeing scrambled video. But its been over a month > >> since I last played with xine, so i may not have remembered things > >> completely correctly. > > > > I suspect that the message seen concerned the MRL, not URL. > > There is a reference to an MRL too. > > It looks suspiciously like the message you get if you try to play an > encrypted DVD on > > > xine without the css package > > Well that is really interesting . Well my Fedora Core 4 installation of > xine is able of > playing encrypted DVDs , my Fedora Core 1 isn't , i suspect a crypled > installation > on Fedora Core 1 though . > > > - IIRC it's something like libdvd-css. > > > ibdvdcss.a > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 812 Dec 8 15:05 libdvdcss.la > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Dec 8 15:05 libdvdcss.so -> > > libdvdcss.so.2.0.8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Dec 8 > > 15:05 libdvdcss.so.2 -> libdvdcss.so.2.0.8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root > > 65K Dec 8 15:05 libdvdcss.so.2.0.8 > > Do you mean something like the above entries > > ( It comes from my Fedora Core 4 installation , it's part of the > /usr/lib directory ) > > > I'm not sure where you can get the Fedora package, though. > > First choice , the source > Second choice , the nearest Fedora Core Repository . > > > Thanks for the information . > > > Anne > > Kostas That's interesting. I haven't actually tried playing a DVD under Fedora yet. I did assume that Fedora, like Mandriva, would not have those packages in their main distro, because of licensing problems. I did assume that they would be available from somewhere. When more urgent jobs are sorted I will try a DVD. Anne
