Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 07:04 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Ken, Basil,
> 
> On Sunday 16 October 2005 04:43, Ken Schneider wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 17:04 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > > How is it possible in this year 2005 for an installed piece of
> > > software in SuSE to be crippleware so that it is not able to play
> > > DVDs?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Search on the packman site (found using google) for libdvdcss and you
> > will find instructions for installing it.
> 
> Not for the past few months.
> 
> To wit (from <http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=122>):
> 
> -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
> "Description:
> 
> "Now, the new copyright in germany is coming into force, it's no longer 
> allowed to provide tools to breake technical protections.
> 
> "Therefore we can no longer provide libdvdcss, sorry."
> -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
> 
> 
> Don't be fooled by the RPM linked from that page. It includes only the 
> ".spec" file.
> 
> The link to the project's home page is still good: 
> <http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/index.html>.
> 
> 
And if you click on the link to the videoland site you will find the
sources located here:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/

Please read the entire page on the videoland site. I think they also
provide a script to download and compile libdvdcss2.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998