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

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:23:13 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > 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
> 
> The xine developers consider 0.9.13 to be old, outdated & buggy.

There are ebuilds for 0.9.18 and 0.9.19 as well. If they are not yet marked
as stable only means that the ebuild maintainer has not done so. Nothing at
all stops me from installing it. It is not a police policy. It is a value
judgement by the maintainer and, perhaps, the Gentoo user community. So, I
will try a newer release.

> > 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.
> 
> sorry, can't help you there.  Sounds like Gentoo is making their own
> rules.

I did not mean to imply that. I just remember that when I compiled from
sources by hand on my Caldera box, there was something about encrypted
support needing to be specifically enabled. But then again, my brain seems
to have a mind of its own these days...

I obviously need to check the libdvdcss install.

Are there any DVDs that would not play even if libdvdcss is set up properly?
Specifically, the European releases of, say, Shrek? At least I can verify
that the DVD itself is not the issue.

What about regions?

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