Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 01:44 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
> > Ken Schneider wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:41 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > On 16/10/05, Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Guys, I'm sorry but I keep hearing this myth bandied about left, right
> > > > > and centre.  MS Windows 'will' play DVD's out of the box with no extra
> > > > > software.  
> > > >
> > > > I should've mentioned this, too. Yes, NT 5.1 (a.k.a. XP) does - out of
> > > > the box - allow for DVD playback. You may get a bluescreen but you get
> > > > DVD playback.
> > >
> > >
> > > And you can play unencrypted DVD's out of the box with linux as well.
> >
> > Which is BS. If you could I wouldn't be asking the question.
> >
> > Cheers.
>
> But I have watched -unencrypted- DVD's out of the box. They are a few
> years old probably with an older format, without dvdcss encryption.

I have a DVD which I tried to play after installing SuSE 10 which I know
is not encrypted and SuSE failed to play it using the thing called
kaffeine. After your message I tried to play it again just to make sure
I wasn't wrong and SuSE/kaffeine cannot play it. The DVD is The
Missionary with Michael Palin and Maggie Smith (1982).

Cheers.



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