On Monday 04 December 2006 08:49, Craig White wrote: >On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 23:21 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 07:10:49PM -0700, Craig White wrote: >> > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > > Greetings all; >> > > >> > > What can I replace totem with that will work? >> > > >> > > I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that >> > > do not tell you what it can't play. >> > >> > ---- >> > you mean kind of like the vague information that I see here? >> >> Don't be a prick. I think he meant what he said and said what he >> meant. Save for a couple of oggs, I haven't been able to persuade >> Totem to play anything it is configured to play. Having fought the >> same fight with Totem, I understand clearly what he meant -- it won't >> play the multimedia files and disks I've fed it, libdvdcss or not. >> Worse, it fails to tell you what about the media it can't handle. >> That's worse than useless. > >---- >but the vague part was not knowing what types of media he was trying to >play. >---- > >> > Just taking a wild ass guess at your problem, I would guess that you >> > need to install an unlicensed version of libdvdcss so you can >> > decrypt encrypted commercial DVD movies. >> >> WTF is an "unlicensed version of libdvdcss"? Every version of >> libdvdcss is licensed, under the GPL to be specific. > >---- >but not licensed by the motion picture industry and of questionable >legality to possess or distribute in the United States. > >Craig Craig, you are being purposely difficult, I've made it plain several times that what I'm concerned with is the ability to play the videos in any link I might run into off of a site such as /. or cnn.news. You keep treating me like a damned pie-rat that wants to make wholesale copies of a popular movie & hawk them on a street corner or flea market. The only copying I might do is a fair use copy, like putting it on my hard drive and the dvd back in its shell on the shelf. But I have not done that to the half dozen movies I do own on dvd yet. So stuff it someplace dark please, I'm tired of the accusations. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
