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

[Keith Antoine]

On Monday 03 February 2003 19:44, 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?

Did you also install the extra files for Xine as it does not ahve the ability 
to decrypt DVD's natively.
To fully use Xine I needed to install:
libdvdread
libdvdcss
libdvdnav
plus the devel libs too
Xine dvdnav
I also installed Xine d5d and d4d to use divx files


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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