On Monday 22 January 2007 10:32, Mark Knoop wrote: > On 21/01/07, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Christian Langer wrote: > > > I notice on my fc6 machine there are mplayer, videolan, xine, > > > kaffeine, and totem; only one, videolan is capable of playing a dvd; > > > are there any others out there? > > > > kaffeine (and likely some of the others) can/will play dvd's, but only > > if you have the (nonfree) libdvdcss library/rpm installed. > > Not _quite_ true: gstreamer based players such as totem can play dvds > if you install gstreamer-plugins-ugly (from livna or freshrpms). > > The others (mplayer, xine, etc) can play unencrypted dvds if you > install libdvdread which is free. To play css encrypted dvds you need > to also install libdvdcss (non-free). > > In practice, most commercial dvds are css encrypted. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-scrambling_system > Insert the word 'recent' there - any distributed before the last couple of years may or may not be encrypted. (I have some unencrypted ones, and they are very useful for testing whether a problem in a new distro is css-related or not :-) .) Anne
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