[IOML] New

[Chris Bryden]

At 14:18 21/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi, I'm new to the whole LUG thing, been using Linux about 8 mths and I 
>won't go back to Bill unless I am dragged kicking and screaming.  Mainly 
>into sorting my machine to be as good as (better really) Windows desktop 
>equivalent.  Can do most everything I need to, although DVD is still a bit 
>of a challenge as far as encryption goes (Xine won't play my English DVD's 
>- how weird is that?  CSS encryption it won't do.)  Have got libdvdread 
>and libdvdcss and installed them but I don't know if they require linking 
>into another folder or whether the /usr/lib it has put them in is 
>right.  Any ideas would be nice.
>
>
>
>Anyway, just wanted to make myself known and I am happy to help anyone 
>with a query if I know the answer.
>
>

Hi Chris,

I don't really use Xine - I use mplayer compiled from source which plays 
DVDs no problem, so I'm not certain, but I had a quick hunt around, and 
found this in the Xine howto that might be of some help...

http://dvd.sourceforge.net/xine-howto/en_GB/html/howto-5.html#ss5.3

DeCSS info may be a bit thin on the ground as everyone is a bit scared of 
the DMCA after what happened to Skylarov...

Chris








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