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On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 19:54 +0100, norman wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> hello everyone again...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> because I've done it before! However, I can't.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I had all the gstreamer plugins installed that it would allow, and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> several other packages related to dvd playback. I knew I also needed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> libdvdcss(2?) installed, but I can't find it in the repos.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> As I've also been having several issues with gstreamer, I replaced it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> with the xine engine, which claims everything comes bundled with it -</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> but it still didin't work.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Lastly I downloaded libdvdcss1.2.9.tar.gz from somewhere</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and ./configure, make, make install-ed it (only recently discovered</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> that cos it never worked on my laptop!), and now the plugin/library</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> thing resides in /usr/lib/local (I think - got no access currently to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> it).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> However, none of the dvd programs point to it to play back; xine asks</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> for something to handle the MRL://, which I presumed it could already</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> do as a media player, and totem asks if I'm trying to play a dvd</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> without libdvdcss.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> think I've just found the answer actually, but it seems a bit obvious</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> so I'll post this anyway just to see what comes up :D</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I had a similar error message and I was told to do :-</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Norman</FONT>
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okay, done that... It did successfully install the stuff for me.<BR>
and then I installed a load of stuff from the medibuntu repos... etc etc<BR>
But I'm running on 64bit architecture (sorry - forgot to mention that earlier :/), and there is no gstreamer0.10-pitfdll available for me. And it won't install from source.<BR>
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This can't be right?! Surely it can't be that I a 64bit linux user can't watch dvds?!<BR>
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I'm only 15 :P
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