[Fwd: Re: DVD-XINE]

[Keith Antoine]

On Wednesday 10 July 2002 12:21 am, Matthew Carpenter espoused with vigour:
> 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

I do have all the above files installed, Matt, as well as the xine one; Xine 
is now running fine it was me pressing wrong buttons. I find the latest gui 
confusing and somewhat ambiguous.

Re rpms for Col 3.1.1 I have a heap now that i have been making for the past 
6 weeks and am updating all those on the last version. They have been made 
with checkinstall and are i686. Many to do with streaming video and cd 
recording, kernel 2.4.18, kde3.0.1, qt3.0.4, libs etc.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage