Kevanf1 wrote:

Zenwalk Linux:

http://www.zenwalk.org/

plays DVD's without any extra messing or downloading of files. It's also based on Slackware Linux as SuSE was many years ago.

However, this does not really address the very frustrating situation that both Basil and myself have found ourselves in. I'll add here that I feel the inability to play back a legally purchased DVD in SuSE Linux is a setback to a potential newcomer to Linux. But, fear not Basil, there is a way of watching your DVD's :-)

Go to this URL:

http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/dvdplay/

and follow the very easy instructions. This is meant for 9.3 but I'm sure it should work with 10 or other revisions but may need slight tweaking.

Hope this is of some help :-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer

34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

Blame the lawmakers, they say you can only play DVD's on what's allowed , i.e MS Windows, dictated by the film makers. This was played out in a court of law and it's illegal to play DVD's on Linux in the USA and Deutschland, both jurisdictions to which SuSE is answerable. Download libdvdcss, build a RPM, install it and as Linus says, be happy. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:06:32PM +0100, Kevanf1 took 35 lines to write:

On 18/10/05, Sid Boyce wrote:

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Blame the lawmakers, they say you can only play DVD's on what's allowed , i.e MS Windows, dictated by the film makers. This was played out in a court of law and it's illegal to play DVD's on Linux in the USA and Deutschland, both jurisdictions to which SuSE is answerable. Download libdvdcss, build a RPM, install it and as Linus says, be happy. Regards Sid. --

You'll get no argumants from me on that one, Sid :-) I agree. It's just a ridiculous situation.

s/ridiculous/assinine/ Kurt -- Cold, adj.: When the politicians walk around with their hands in their own pockets.

On Saturday 22 October 2005 4:01 am, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

On 10/16/2005 05:18 AM, Kevanf1 wrote:

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<snip> http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/dvdplay/

Has anyone verified this site recently? For the past 5 days, I've been getting "connection refused" when I try to connect with either Mozilla or Konqueror.

I get a can't connect to the host error. Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x

On Sunday 16 October 2005 10:11, david rankin wrote:

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#!/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=1.2.9 V_PACKMAN=0.pm.0 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*

I've ran the script (nice) and I get this error message: + cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD + rm -rf libdvdcss-1.2.9 + exit 0 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2 from install of libdvdcss2-1.2.9-0.pm.0 conflicts with file from package libdvdcss-1.2.8-1 libdvdcss2 have not been installed I removed everything I could find: Cosmos3:/home/adriel # rm /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2.0.7 Cosmos3:/home/adriel # rm /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2 Cosmos3:/home/adriel # rm /usr/lib/libdvdread.so.3.0.0 Cosmos3:/home/adriel # rm /usr/lib/libdvdnav.so.4.0.0 Cosmos3:/home/adriel # rm /usr/lib/libdvdnav.so.4 Cosmos3:/home/adriel # rm /usr/lib/libdvdread.so.3 Cosmos3:/home/adriel # rm /usr/lib/libdvdread.so.2 I there a command to tell me all the files left on my system that are part of the libdvdcss-1.2.8-1 package? Thanks, Jerome

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 16:14 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Wednesday 2005-10-19 at 10:12 -1000, Susemail wrote:

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I there a command to tell me all the files left on my system that are part of the libdvdcss-1.2.8-1 package?

Of course. man rpm, query section. Or use pin.

There are only five files to start with and three of them are in /usr/lib. less libdvdcss2-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm will shoe all of the files contained in the rpm. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998