[IOML] New

[Daniel Ankers]

Chris Hall 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.
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> Anyway, just wanted to make myself known and I am happy to help anyone 
> with a query if I know the answer. 
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> Cheers
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> Chris
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Hi Chris,
Which distribution are you running?  Most of them have some way of 
installing decss easily.  You can check which libraries Xine is linked 
against by doing
ldd `which xine`
(The backticks are from the key next to "1" on the keyboard.)
Dan