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

Bob Raymond rraymond
Mon May 17 11:43:54 PDT 2004


Roger Oberholtzer 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?
> 
emerge xine-dvdnav

And they might have changed this- I'm not at my Linux box right now- but 
I think you have to select the 'nav' option when playing an encrypted DVD.

				Bob Raymond




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