DVD Playback under Fedora Core 4
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Feb 13 19:14:35 UTC 2006
On Monday 13 February 2006 17:26, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 00:36:40 +0200,
>
> Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> > It can never even start playing a DVD movie because there is
> > no URI or URL or something like that to handle "dvd://" well
> > actually it is /dev/hdc but anyway
>
> The device specification is different than the device type. You shouldn't
> have to specify the device unless you have more than one dvd player.
> If you don't tell it you are playing a DVD then things don't work
> correctly. My memory is that the CSS keys don't get extracted from the DVD
> and you end up seeing scrambled video. But its been over a month since I
> last played with xine, so i may not have remembered things completely
> correctly.
I suspect that the message seen concerned the MRL, not URL. It looks
suspiciously like the message you get if you try to play an encrypted DVD on
xine without the css package - IIRC it's something like libdvd-css. I'm not
sure where you can get the Fedora package, though.
Anne
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