libdvdcss [quasi OT, quasi not OT]

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 23:09 -0500, Anthony Messina wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 09:34:41 pm Craig White wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 19:09 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > --- On Wed, 10/29/08, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca> 
> wrote:
> > > > From: Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca>
> > > > Subject: Re: libdvdcss [quasi OT, quasi not OT]
> > > > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > > > Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 6:03 PM
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 11:47 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > > > The current recommendations are to get it from those
> > > >
> > > > still willing to risk
> > > >
> > > > > distributing it (rpmfusion currently is not)
> > > >
> > > > Well, this is going to make watching my DVDs on my Fedora
> > > > desktop pretty
> > > > damn hard.  It'll ruin the desktop experience for a lot
> > > > of newbs, not to
> > > > mention making it a pain in the ass for experienced users.
> > > >
> > > > What's the proposed alternative?  Suppose we can't
> > > > get libdvdcss at all
> > > > - how would we watch DVDs then?
> > >
> > > On our PC's right?
> > >
> > > 1) On Bill's OS
> > > 2) On regular dvd players which are intended for this (please do not get
> > > offended) 3) find/retrieve/store keep copies of libdvdcss source code and
> > > compile it on our own, at our own risk, and install it.
> > >
> > > I still like option 3 the best, but as long as I can watch the movie I
> > > would not mind option 2 or 1 going in that direction :)
> >
> > ----
> > A mailing-list has been set up for support and discussion about
> > libdvdcss. Its address is :
> >
> >    <libdvdcss at videolan.org>
> >
> > To subscribe, send a mail to <listar at videolan.org> with the following
> > words in the mail body :
> >
> >    subscribe libdvdcss
> >
> > To unsubscribe, do the same with the words :
> >
> >    unsubscribe libdvdcss
> 
> is that the right address?
> 
> <listar at videolan.org>: host skanda.videolan.org[2001:41d0:1:a690::1] said: 550
>     5.1.1 <listar at videolan.org>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in
>     virtual alias table (in reply to RCPT TO command)
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that came from the README from livna (F9) but it may very well be that
videolan.org discontinued mail list as they do have a wiki...
http://wiki.videolan.org/Main_Page

and forums
http://forum.videolan.org/

and it's a live/robust project

Craig