DVD Playback under Fedora Core 4

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 13 February 2006 20:41, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> There is a reference to an MRL too.
>
>   It looks  suspiciously like the message you get if you try to play an
> encrypted DVD on
>
> > xine without the css package
>
> Well that is really interesting . Well my Fedora Core 4 installation of
> xine is able of
> playing encrypted DVDs , my Fedora Core 1 isn't , i suspect a crypled
> installation
> on Fedora Core 1 though .
>
>
>   - IIRC it's something like libdvd-css.
>
> > ibdvdcss.a
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          812 Dec  8 15:05 libdvdcss.la
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Dec  8 15:05 libdvdcss.so ->
> > libdvdcss.so.2.0.8 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Dec  8
> > 15:05 libdvdcss.so.2 -> libdvdcss.so.2.0.8 -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root 
> >         65K Dec  8 15:05 libdvdcss.so.2.0.8
>
> Do you mean something like the above entries
>
> ( It comes from my Fedora Core 4 installation , it's part of the
> /usr/lib directory )
>
>
> I'm not  sure where you can get the Fedora    package, though.
>
> First choice , the source
> Second choice , the nearest Fedora Core Repository .
>
>
> Thanks for the information .
>
> > Anne
>
> Kostas

That's interesting.  I haven't actually tried playing a DVD under Fedora yet.  
I did assume that Fedora, like Mandriva, would not have those packages in 
their main distro, because of licensing problems.  I did assume that they 
would be available from somewhere.  When more urgent jobs are sorted I will 
try a DVD.

Anne