Tim: >> I've never got the applications that FC4 tried to use to play a DVD, >> by default, to work. James Wilkinson: > Not surprising -- they're not meant to work for most DVDs. Supplying > the code to read most DVD's CSS may well be a violation of the USA's > DCMA, and the MPEG2 encoding is patented. So Fedora *can't* legally > supply open-source programs to play most DVDs. I already knew about that, but what doesn't make sense is that: a. There's a default program to play something that it can't play. b. That it doesn't manage to play non-protected DVDs. If it could play non-protected discs, e.g. my own recordings, then I can see the sense in having a default player, but it doesn't. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
