A vlc question

[Aaron Konstam]

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.
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