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

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Jerry McBride wrote:
> 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...

I think its a Gentoo'ism.

>
> >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.

Perhaps libdvdcss support isn't included in your build?  See my SxS on
Xine for how to build Xine to play encrypted DVDs.

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