On Monday 25 October 2004 8:02 pm, BandiPat wrote:
I've tried getting libdvdcss to run under both Fedora and S.u.S.E. and the Fedora procedure was much simpler because of the uncrippled SuSE's xine is not actually crippled, in the sense you seem to be
On Monday 25 October 2004 03:52 pm, Charles McColm wrote: putting it, but it won't play DVDs or some other files, like .wma or newer .mov until you add those codecs.
Actually, if you add libdvdcss and the wmv codec from pacman, but use the default yast2 install of Xine from Novell, neither DVDs, nor wmv's will play. The version of Xine on the Novell site has some sort of linking which doesn't recognize that libdvdcss is installed. It seems to be done on purpose, so I'd certainly call that crippled. Now if you remove all the Novell Xine packages and use only the pacman packages it'll work fine, but some of the packages on the pacman site are older than the latest yast2 updates (curl) which makes keeping up to date a pain.
Otherwise, xine works just great for many files already, .mpg, mp3, ogg, .mpeg, some .mov, realplayer, etc. Crippled software doesn't do those things, but if you are having problems with the most simple files, you might want to look elsewhere for your answers to the problem.
Xine does these fine out of the box. The issue is Novell's version of Xine, not pacman. If I go the pacman route, I have to install an older version of curl. ;-)