Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Most movies sold on DVD are encrypted using a scheme called CSS. [...] > Load this link and go to the section headed "Install libdvdcss2 and w32 > video codecs in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)" and all should become a little > clearer. >
Hmmm... no need to add third-party unsupported repositories for DVD playback in Hardy 8.04.1 LTS. Please see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs Remember depending on where you're doing this it may not be legal. This is may be of particular in terest in an educational environment. Although getting a license for codecs from Fluendo may help with most media formats, I am not aware of a DVD playback license you could get the same way. See: https://shop.fluendo.com http://www.linux.com/feature/143418 Although I am not a lawyer, the closest I'd see to having a legal way to watch such movies in a large Edubuntu install if you have indeed rights for public screening, etc. for such DVDs would be to encode them in the Ogg Theora free format. Thoggen (package name thoggen) and ffmpeg2theora will help, you would still have to install libdvdcss on at least one system to perform the conversion or do the conversion on a system that has licensed DVD playback (most DVD readed on Windows come with such licenses in their software). I believe Copyright law here in Canada has provisions for such exceptions (ie. conversion of a format), however check your local laws. Cheers, Fabian Rodriguez, Ubuntu Systems Senior Support Analyst Canonical Ltd., Global Support & Services http://www.canonical.com/services/support Montreal, QC, Canada -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
