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

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:02:18 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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.

Gentoo is a bit more involved than that. For any given package, there can be
an ebuild, which is a script that handles dependencies before config fails
and that handles any oddities not handled by the config;make;install
process. At any given time there can be on your system ebuild scripts for
any number of versions of a package. Some are denoted as stable and others
not stable (or not proven to be so yet). So, having an ebuild for
xine-dvdnav as a separate thing from xine could very well be possible. All
this allows you to install older versions of packages as well as stable or
cutting edge. It is up to you. It is one of the nice things about Gentoo.
You can be as cutting edge or rock solid as you want.

In my case, I have installed xine-ui-0-9-13, which is the one considered by
the Gentoo xine maintainer to be the current stable one. There are newer
versions available as well, but I have been starting with stable versions
when trying a new package. I see that libdvdcss is also installed and xine
seems to find it. I would imagine that encrypted DVDs are not handled by
default in this software but, instead, requires the user to select that such
support be enabled. I know that I would do it that way. I suspect that the
xine install on Gentoo has encrypted support off by default. My question
was, in Gentoo, where would I enable it? I did not see anything obvious in
the ebuilds for these items.

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