Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[kai <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 16 October 2005 00:04, 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?
>
> A couple of years ago (give or take 5 years) it was suggested to me to
> use I think XINE - and I did most successfully at the time. Now I find
> that xine as I knew it then does not exist (?turned into kaffeine) and
> the file which was needed to make it all work correctly - libdvdcss - is
> not where to be found, at least for me.
>
> Can someone please give me a place where I can download a program which
> will play DVDs without all the crap about 'possibly breaking country's
> laws' and thus making some s/ware crippleware?

I agree it is totally fscked that SuSE doesn't include DVD playback out of the 
box. I cannot belive that their lawyers are so fscking lame they can't 
negotiate a contract to provide CSS on thier incuded DVD player and then 
simply charge a few cents more per box. I can understand if it isn' t 
included on the download but give me a break - I get a crippled version from 
the box. 

Anyway, go to http://rpm.pbone.net and lookfor libdvdcss2 and you'll be set in 
no time.  Though I have little value in watching a dvd from my laptop, here 
is a shot from today on my 10 system...

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/laptop_desktop3.jpg

'nuff said.
-- 
kai 
www.perfectreign.com

linux - genuine windows replacement part