On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 23:03 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 30 June 2007 22:48, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > 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? > > Possibly, but libdvdcss2 is the debian version. An error on my part. Try just > libdvdcss. > > I've just put vlc on an instance of FC5, and freshrpms is showing libdvdcss , > which I installed, and I've got vlc playing DVD's ok on that. > > Livna probably has it too, but I havn't got anything booted up thats using the > Livna repo at the moment. > > Sorry for the error. > > Nigel. > Thanks, I found it on freshrpms and it works. -- ======================================================================= What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you. -- Robert Frost [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to AST's.] ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
