On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 15:39 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 30 June 2007 15:07, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I was trying to use vlc to play some video DVDs. It worked on two of > > them but failed on two. All of them were commercial DVDs. I remember > > someone previously stated a rule for which DVDs vlc will not play. > > Could someone restate the rule? > > > > I could not find any other application to play them either. Is there > > such an application? > > Have you installed libdvdcss2, which is needed for decrypting some dvd's. > > Mplayer includes it in the package, but vlc, xine, and ogle, etc, all need it. > > Freshrpms, or Livna to get it. > > Nigel. > I can't find libdvdcss2 on livna. Is it possible it is only on freshrpms? -- ======================================================================= "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power) ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx