[plug] DVD's on Linux

[John Knight]

G'day mate! :)

I've been playing encrypted DVDs for a long time, firstly with the use of 
MPlayer then Ogle afterwards. If you'rre after menus at this point int time, 
Ogle will certainly be the player of choice, as MPlayer is more a of a 
general video player. I recommend installing MPlayer anyway, though. IT has 
extensive documentation and uses another library, apart from deccs 
(libdvdkit I think). Ogle should be able to use this, I think.

If you need help installing MPlayer, contact me offlist and I'll send you 
the article that's meant for a future linmag. MPlayer is certainly for power 
users and not for the faint of heart I must warn you, but it should set you 
up for libraries in the future. Ogle's probably the player of choice at the 
moment, although video playback can suffer motion problems when 
non-accelerated. Use MPlayer if video motion compensation is important, or a 
wide variety of audio options.

Cheers! John :)

Make lunch, not war.


>
>Hi People,
>
>How do you go about playing encoded DVD's on Linux, or d'you have to use
>Windows?
>
>Any help gratefully appreciated. I get the following from xine when I try
>to play them. Have downloaded and installed 'libdvdcss', but the problem
>persists
>
>
>              input_dvd: Sorry, this plugin doesn't play encrypted DVDs. 
>The
>legal
>status
>            of CSS decryption is unclear and we can't provide such code.
>            Please check http://dvd.sf.net for more information.
>
>Also, any ideas of the legal situation.
>
>RichardM
>


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