On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 17:04 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
How is it possible in this year 2005 for an installed piece of software in SuSE to be crippleware so that it is not able to play DVDs?
Copyrights and Patents prevent the necessary software from being shipped with the distribution as has been mentioned on this list many many times
A couple of years ago (give or take 5 years) it was suggested to me to use I think XINE - and I did most successfully at the time. Now I find that xine as I knew it then does not exist (?turned into kaffeine) and the file which was needed to make it all work correctly - libdvdcss - is not where to be found, at least for me.
Can someone please give me a place where I can download a program which will play DVDs without all the crap about 'possibly breaking country's laws' and thus making some s/ware crippleware?
Cheers.
Search on the packman site (found using google) for libdvdcss and you will find instructions for installing it. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998