On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:23 pm, Marino Fernandez wrote: [in response to ??? who wrote]
I've had the same problem with Xine. It says Xine doesn't and will never play encrypted dvd's, because it's illegal.
What is illegal is playing encrypted DVD using an open source algorythm (according to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act) ... this is the illegal part.
Any program in linux that plays encrypted DVD has that decrypting program (deCSS)... It does not matter if it is Ogle or Mplayer or Xine... if it uses decss (or however you want to call it) is illegal...
hmmm... earlier in this thread you noted the list of RPM's to install for Xine, which included the curiously named file "libdvdcss2". Searching the net reveals there is both a "libdvdcss" and "libdvdcss2" -- without the "2" suffix, most (if not all) of the descriptions simply indicated it was a library that enabled block-I/O for dvd devices without the need for region "locking" on the drive; while most of the ones for libdvdcss-2- indicate "will use deCSS if needed" [of course, I realize most of these sites are copies/mirrors of each other, so it makes sense that the "description" remains similar, but it is interesting that no sites I've found (so far) give a hint as to the existance of the "other" library] So I'm curious: 1) are these "libraries" interchangable? (do they provide the same "function") 2) if so, is one "deCSS" based and the other "not"? (or are they both deCSS based and one group simply isn't saying so...) [of course, if you'd rather not say...]