On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:09, tokyoi@xxxxxxx wrote: > On 3 Jan 2007, at 10:44, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> [snip] I haven't tried vlc yet. What I have done is removed xine > >> and everything > >> related that I could find that came from livna and installed the > >> freshrpms > >> versions, so that everything matches. I have > >> ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.7.20061215.fc6 > >> and faad2-2.5-1.fc6 which I believe are the freshrpms versions. > >> Unfortunately it has made no difference. Xine still tells me > >> > >> The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. > >> Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws, you > >> can or > >> can't install/use libdvdcss to be able to read this disc which you > >> bought. > >> (Media stream scrambled/encrypted) > > > > On top of everything else, the change has broken mjpegtools. It > > was, of > > course, uninstalled and had to be reinstalled, but it is no longer > > possible > > to edit an avi file with 'glav -p S filename.avi'. I'm sick of > > this kind of > > fighting. It looks as though I'd be better off compiling > > mjpegtools from > > source. > > I suspect that you may be better off re-installing xine as per the > standard livna package This livna/freshrpms business is a real bind. > and trying another way of de-crypting the BBC > disks. It may be of little help or consolation to you but I have had > the same problem with BBC disks -- I have a 1992 set of DVDs which > xine chews on for (what seems like) half an hour before returning an > error message. I tried a recent BBC distribution of a 1970s series, The Lotus Eaters, and that ran fine in xine. It seems that they are inconsistent. They're not very linux friendly, either. It must be at least 2 years since I complained to them that their audio clips were problematic. > VideoLan didn't fare any better either. I haven't > tried newer disks from the Beeb but am not holding out any hope. They > are obviously encrypted in a commercially advantageous way because > they work fine in my iBook and in my "real" DVD player, a Marantz. Yes, the disk in question works perfectly in my LiteOn stand-alone player. > I > have started installing dvdrip from freshrpms but am still having fun > working out the bits and bobs of missing library files ... :-) > I've installed it but not tried it yet. Let us know how it goes? Anne
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