On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 22:33 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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 > There are 3 repos I use beyond FC for routine updates and otherwise not available software. Livna, Dag (now rpmforge) and kde-redhat-stable. Several others are also available to get the software you want that is not provided by Fedora. IIRC, when I wanted to be able to use xine for DVD play, I simply enabled the repo (rpmforge and livna [enabled separately]) then ran "yum install dvd* libdvd* xine*" and it gave me the following: xine-lib-devel-1.1.1-1.2.fc4.rf xine-skins-1.10-2.2.fc4.rf xinetd-2.3.13-6 xine-0.99.4-3.2.fc4.rf xine-lib-1.1.1-1.2.fc4.rf libdvdread-devel-0.9.4-7.2.fc4.rf dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-6 gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 libdvdplay-1.0.1-0.2.fc4.rf libdvdnav-devel-0.1.10-0.lvn.1.4 libdvdread-0.9.4-7.2.fc4.rf dvdstyler-1.4-0.lvn.3.4 dvdauthor-0.6.11-1.2.fc4.rf libdvdnav-0.1.10-0.lvn.1.4 libdvdcss-1.2.9-1.2.fc4.rf libdvdplay-devel-1.0.1-0.2.fc4.rf libdvdcss-devel-1.2.9-1.2.fc4.rf Almost all in this list is from rpmforge and xine is all I use for DVDs. I also installed totem-xine from livna but I like the controls on xine better than totem so I seldom use that.
