Playing my first DVD... (on Gentoo?)

[Jerry McBride]

On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:44:40 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 22:38:00 -0500
> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I just played my first DVD on my linux box tonight. Beautiful. I'm running
> > XINE and the only thing I had to add was the libdvdcss library and it all
> > came into place.
> 
> I installed Xine and libdvdcss on Gentoo, but I cannot play encoded DVDs. I
> am sure something is off by default when this is compiled, but I have not
> sorted it out. Do the default ebuilds allow this? Or do I need to define
> something for the ebuild?
> 

I don't even know what an ebuild is... but try this anyway...

>From your desktop(kde?), open up a konsole and execute xine from the command
line. Fire up the browser, choose dvd... after it fails, close xine and then
look over the console messages that xine wrote. Somewhere in there will be the
clue to your problem.


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