I used to use mplayer because it has DVD decryption support "out of the box". However the gui leaves much to be desired, and the build process can be a bit tricky.
Recently though Xine has included DVD support, and their player is far more polished and easier to set up. Once you download the Xine libs, Xine frontend ( such as Totem if youre on Gnome ), you have to search for something like "DeCSS DVD decoder library" to find the trivially small library that contains the "illegal" decoding routine. Without it Xine will complain it cant open the DVD. The DVD decryption scheme called CSS is the sole reason why DVD on linux is a pain. While it is a technically trivial code, its illegal ( because it can somehow be used to pirate DVDs, according to one idiot judge who used to work for the motion picture assoc. ) to decode DVDs on any player that hasnt purchased a key from MPAA -- which open source developers dont have the money to do. Even if they could buy it, they would probably be sued for distributing the source code for it. Enjoy! I watch DVDs all the time on my computer, and I have yet to boot Win2000 in the past 6 monthes! Cheers, Ryan On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 16:26, James R. McKenzie wrote: > If I could get a few more things down pat I'd consider jumping > completely from Winderz e[X]tremely [P]ompous [H]opelessly [E]rroneous. > A good DVD player is one of 'em. I have to figure out why Ii can only > play WAV files and the like first but still I'd love to play DVD > movies. I have way too many discs to not play 'em and my TV is 14 years > old and I cannot afford a new one right now, I also don't want the fun > of rigging in a DVD connector and an A/B switch. I digress, Any/all > help will be appreciated. > > > James R. McKenzie > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
