Bob Schmidt wrote:
New to the list. I have a 866mhz, with 256mb of ram running suse 9.1. I really like it and have had no problems at all, except, does linux have a program for playing dvd's? When I put a dvd into my dvd player, it comes up with kaffeine, and the program says that becaue of legalities it cannot play dvd's? Any suggestions as to what program if any I should get?
SuSE doesn't supply the software to play most commercial DVDs because there are legal issues over distributing DVD 'decrypting' software. In some countries it is a criminal offence even to tell someone how to decode a DVD that uses even the ultra low grade scheme that most commercial DVDs use. You might even be sent to prison for reading this. I use ogle, compiled from source. Others have had success with kaffeine, xine, etc,. Check the list archives for more details. The description below will probably work, but you'll want more recent versions of the libraries. ++ installed ogle Download liba52 from http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz # cd a52dec-0.7.4 # CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentiumpro" ./configure # make (root) # make install Download libdvdcss to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/libdvdcss-1.2.6 # cd libdvdcss-1.2.6 # CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" ./configure # make (root) # make install download ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/mpeg/mad-0.14.2b.tar.gz and install dwnload ogle-0.9.1.tar.gz, libdvdread-0.9.4 and okle-0.3.tar.gz from http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml # tar zxvf libdvdread-0.9.4.tar.gz # cd libdvdread-0.9.4/ # CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" ./configure --prefix=/usr # make (root) # make install # cd .. # tar zxvf ogle-0.9.1.tar.gz # cd ogle-0.9.1 # CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" ./configure # make (root) # make install # tar zxvf ogle-0.9.1.tar.gz # cd ogle-0.9.1 # CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" ./configure # make (root) # make install # tar zxvf okle-0.3.tar.gz # cd okle-0.3 # CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" ./configure --with-ogle-dir=/usr # make (root) # make install 13/4/2003 # tar zxvf xvattr-1.3.tar.gz # cd xvattr-1.3/ # CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" ./configure # make (root) # make install -- JDL