chuck holland wrote:

Joe I installed the following from packman site and it works great. Install in the following order 1.w32codec 2.speex-1.1 3. libxine 4. xine-ui..........and lastly libdvdcss2......might be a easier way but this works great for me.

chuck

Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

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Joseph Loo wrote:

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All of those RPMs are installed already. Kaffine comes up and comes back and say it can not play it. I have tried decss loaded.

Install the kaffeine from packman.

The libdvdcss that comes with SuSE distros is crippled for legal reasons, DVD decyption is illegal in Germany. That's why you either have to build your own from downloaded sources or use the one from packman's site. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks

Anders Johansson wrote:

On Saturday 21 May 2005 13:03, Sid Boyce wrote:

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The libdvdcss that comes with SuSE distros is crippled for legal reasons,

libdvdcss isn't included at all, I think you meant 'the xine/mplayer'

Sure, xine. I'm sure libdvdcss used to figure if you wanted to play DVD's under Linux using xine and it's variants. I now notice libdvdnav that is in the downloaded source is not in the SuSE xine-lib, I wonder if that's the difference. With xine built from sources running, this is all I see. # lsof|grep dvd xine 11696 root mem REG 3,1 597089 452866 /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.1/xineplug_inp_dvd.so Neither the plugin nor libxine.so.1.12.0 seem to depend on libdvdcss or libdvdnav.

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DVD decyption is illegal in Germany.

Er, no, DVD players are actually sold even in Germany :)

What is illegal is to distribute a means to decrypt them without a license from the patent holder. It's more or less the same idea as the DMCA in the states. There is no law that I know of that specifically targets DVDs, it's a general patent/copyright thing

Granted, I was thinking - playing DVD's under Linux using GPL software.

It is possible to sell licensed DVD players though, and a few linux distributors have done so. I know TurboLinux did it, and I *think* Mandrake and Linspire have done it too

Both the above distros enable you to play DVD's under Linux. Turbolinux has licensed the commercial package PowerDVD which is obviously not GPL, so is not available on other distros.

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That's why you either have to build your own from downloaded sources or use the one from packman's site.

packman doesn't distribute the sources or binaries anymore, you have to get the sources from videolan, and then Packman has the framework that helps you build them once they're downloaded. There is a site in Brazil that has the precompiled stuff.

I've used the Connectiva stuff in the past as they were compatible with SuSE. I've done a quick read of the differences between Connectiva and Mandrake, but I didn't get a clear idea of whether Mandriva's next distro is going to move in the direction of Connectiva or Mandrake, Connectiva being the distro that is way more FSH compatible, you'd think it would hold sway though the rational and the obvious don't necessarily carry the day. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks

On Saturday 21 May 2005 01:46 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Saturday 21 May 2005 20:30, Sid Boyce wrote:

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I now notice libdvdnav that is in the downloaded source is not in the SuSE xine-lib, I wonder if that's the difference. With xine built from sources running, this is all I see. # lsof|grep dvd xine 11696 root mem REG 3,1 597089 452866 /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.1/xineplug_inp_dvd.so Neither the plugin nor libxine.so.1.12.0 seem to depend on libdvdcss or libdvdnav.

It doesn't depend on it, but it does open libdvdcss when you play a DVD. Run that command again when you're playing a DVD.

libdvdnav I think is deprecated, ISTR the functionality has been subsumed into libdvdread.

I used the following script to get and install the css thing. Save it as install_libdvdcss2 and make it executable. Read the stuff at the beginning to see what else you need. Works beautifully! Richard #!/bin/sh # # # This script will: # 1) download the sources needed to build libdvdcss2 RPM # 2) Ask the root password # 3) Build the binary RPM packages and install it. # NOTE: To build is needed to install before the following packages: # gcc (the C GNU compiler) # make (the make build GNU utility) # wget (the tool to download the source code) # To use it, you will need an internet conection up to download the sources # a) Download the script # b) move it to a temp directory # c) cd to that temp directory # d) execute the script (you will need to know the root password and the # internet conection up) # ./install_libdvdcss2 # # (c) Guillermo Ballester Valor, 2004 # # v 0.1.1 (15-feb-2004) # V_DVDCSS2=1.2.8 V_PACKMAN=0.pm.2 SITE_PACKMAN=mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/linux/misc/packman TEMP_FILE=./tmpfile # First check about gcc and make packages echo "Checking if you have basic compiler and utils installed ..." ! ( rpm -q gcc ) && echo "You have to install 'gcc' RPM package before" && exit ! ( rpm -q make ) && echo "You have to install 'make' RPM package before" && exit ! ( rpm -q wget ) && echo "You have to install 'wget' RPM package before" && exit echo "Ok, continue downloading needed packages and sources ..." echo " " # A small clean before download fresh files rm -f libdvdcss2-${V_DVDCSS2}-${V_PACKMAN}.nosrc.rpm* rm -f libdvdcss-${V_DVDCSS2}.tar.bz2* # download the packman nosrc.rpm package wget ftp://${SITE_PACKMAN}/suse/8.2/SRPMS/libdvdcss2-${V_DVDCSS2}-${V_PACKMAN}.nosrc.rpm # download the libdvdcss2 source wget ftp://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/${V_DVDCSS2}/libdvdcss-${V_DVDCSS2}.tar.bz2 echo "download completed" echo " " # A legal warning and ask the root password echo "WARNING: THE USE OF LIBDVDCSS LIBRARY COULD BE ILLEGAL IN YOUR COUNTRY" echo "Enter the root password if you want to continue and install it." echo "Enter any other key otherwise." echo "The compiling process will generate a lot of output on the screen" echo "Don't worry about it" # build the rpms and install as root su --command="mv libdvdcss-${V_DVDCSS2}.tar.bz2 /usr/src/packages/SOURCES && \ rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i586 libdvdcss2-${V_DVDCSS2}-${V_PACKMAN}.nosrc.rpm &&\ rpm -Uvh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/libdvdcss2*-${V_DVDCSS2}-${V_PACKMAN}.i586.rpm " # check the installation INSTALLED=`rpm -qi libdvdcss2 | grep libdvdcss2-${V_DVDCSS2}-${V_PACKMAN}.src.rpm` FILE0=./libdvdcss2-${V_DVDCSS2}-${V_PACKMAN}.nosrc.rpm FILE1=/usr/src/packages/SRPMS/libdvdcss2-${V_DVDCSS2}-${V_PACKMAN}.src.rpm FILE2=/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/libdvdcss2-${V_DVDCSS2}-${V_PACKMAN}.i586.rpm FILE3=/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/libdvdcss2-devel-${V_DVDCSS2}-${V_PACKMAN}.i586.rpm # last step if test -n "${INSTALLED}" -a ${FILE1} -nt ${FILE0} -a ${FILE2} -nt ${FILE0} -a ${FILE3} -nt ${FILE0}; then echo "libdvdcss2 rpm packages installed successfully. You have the rpm" echo "packages in the directory '/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586' " else echo "libdvdcss2 have not been installed" if test -n "${INSTALLED}"; then echo "The same version was already installed" fi fi