[Fwd: Re: DVD-XINE]

[Matthew Carpenter]

AFAIK this probably has to do with Xine's public declaration that they do
not support the libdvdcss at this time due to its questionable legal
status.  Why doesn't someone just rewrite it and be done with it?  The
"secret" concepts are blown.  You can't outlaw the use of concepts,
especially if there are 5 or 10 different implementations of it.

It would seem that one could run Xine without the NAV plugin and use only
xine-lib and xine-ui.  (I believe) This would use the standard builtin
Xine DVD subsystem.  The following packages give the NAV subsystem, which
is often considered better than the built-in one:

libdvdread
libdvdnav
xine-dvdnav

According to the README file for libdvdread, it currently uses libdl to
dynamically probe for libdvdcss at runtime.  So if you have it,
congratulations, if not, you still can use the new subsystem if you like.

Look for COL3.1.x rpms to be linked to from the SxS site coming soon. 
(Due to potential legal issues, all but the libdvdcss packages will be
included.  If use of libdvdcss is legal for you, pull it from the videolan
site and buld from source-it should still work)

Matt

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:27:18 +1000
"Keith Antoine" <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> 
> It was not the case in version pre .10 were I was able to run a dvd by 
> accessing the dvd button, whereas now one uses the 'nav' button.