Hi All, I was wondering if it was possible to play a DVD in SuSE 9? I do not seem to be able to do so with what I have installed. Although SuSE does see my DVD player (the icon on the desktop says DVD and the other says CD-R - both are correct). I can access the drive (I actually installed SuSE from that drive). SuSE sees it as an HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B if that matters. Thanks Russ
* Russ <bigrig64@comcast.net> [01-25-04 20:36]:
I was wondering if it was possible to play a DVD in SuSE 9? I do not seem to be able to do so with what I have installed. Although SuSE does see my DVD player (the icon on the desktop says DVD and the other says CD-R - both are correct). I can access the drive (I actually installed SuSE from that drive). SuSE sees it as an HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B if that matters.
There has been much discussion (and recently) on this list about reading info and video from dvd's. Look for packman on google and download/install the xine packages for SUSE 9.0. Make sure that you read the instructions, as there are several packages required to fully utilize your dvd and bypass the RIAA's crippling. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Russ <bigrig64@comcast.net> [01-25-04 20:36]:
I was wondering if it was possible to play a DVD in SuSE 9? I do not seem to be able to do so with what I have installed. Although SuSE does see my DVD player (the icon on the desktop says DVD and the other says CD-R - both are correct). I can access the drive (I actually installed SuSE from that drive). SuSE sees it as an HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B if that matters.
There has been much discussion (and recently) on this list about reading info and video from dvd's. Look for packman on google and download/install the xine packages for SUSE 9.0.
Make sure that you read the instructions, as there are several packages required to fully utilize your dvd and bypass the RIAA's crippling.
May be there is good news, I read earlier on lwn.net that the DVDCCA have dropped their DeCSS case against Andrew Brunner, seemingly giving up on the assertion that it is a trade secret, but the DMCA still hovers, perhaps one brick at a time will cause the wall to crash. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
Hi Patrick and Jan: Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Russ <bigrig64@comcast.net> [01-25-04 20:36]:
I was wondering if it was possible to play a DVD in SuSE 9?
There has been much discussion (and recently) on this list about reading info and video from dvd's.
Since this is such a high volume list I am only able to deal with the posts that I am trying to do at the moment, and save some that I think I may be interested in later. I missed this discussion on DVD's. Anyway I went to the archives and searched around and found one with detailed instructions. Jan responded to my post with a set of those same instructions (thanks Jan). Anyway, some of the packages I was told I needed could not be found in the places I was told to find them. A quick google search and I was able to track down all the little buggers. Followed the instructions (sort of), well, eventually I got them all in there. Bottom line, it works :-) Thanks Russ
On Monday 26 January 2004 02:36, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
I was wondering if it was possible to play a DVD in SuSE 9? I do not seem to be able to do so with what I have installed. Although SuSE does see my DVD player (the icon on the desktop says DVD and the other says CD-R - both are correct). I can access the drive (I actually installed SuSE from that drive). SuSE sees it as an HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B if that matters.
Here's what I did to get it working : 1. Install xine * Download libxine1-1_rc3-0.pm.0.i586.rpm from http://packman.links2linux.org Install with YaST2 * Download libxine1-dvd-1_rc3-0.pm.0.i586.rpm from http://packman.links2linux.org Install with YaST2 2. Install libdvdcss (= decoder for encrypted DVD's) * Download libdvdcss2-1.2.8-0.pm.2.nosrc.rpm from http://packman.links2linux.org * Download libdvdcss-1.2.8.tar.bz2 from http://www.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/ * Installation : - Move libdvdcss-1.2.8.tar.bz2 to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/ - Run the following as root : cd /your-download-directory/ rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 libdvdcss*.nosrc.rpm ( this will build an RPM file libdvdcss2-1.2.8-0.pm.2.i686.rpm in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i686/ ) - Install libdvdcss2-1.2.8-0.pm.2.i686.rpm with YaST2 3. Enable DMA for DVD drive * Go to YaST2 - Hardware - IDE DMA mode * Set DMA On for CD/DVD drive Enjoy. Cheers, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"
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