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

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Bob Raymond wrote:
> 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.

dvdnav (which is deprecated, and has been officially merged into the base
xine tree) has nothing to do with encrypted DVDs.  dvdnav is what gives
you the ability to use the DVD menues (all that stuff that you get when
you play most commerical DVDs, scene selection, special features etc).

If Gentoo has a 'xine-dvdnav' package, then i really wonder how up to date
their codebase is, since xine-dvdnav failed to exist about 6 months ago.

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