DVDs on Unbuntu-PPC

[Jonathan Hudson]

David Chart wrote:
> Is there any way to play standard DVDs on an install of Ubuntu on a PPC?
> The instructions in the Wiki are i386 only.
> 
> Everything else seems to work just fine.
> 
> Thanks.

Just find the source for libdvdcss, compile and install. Then xine and 
totem (with totem-xine, libxine) play DVDs.

i.e.
  * Untar libdvdcss-1.2.8.tar.bz2 ( happened to have that in the portage 
directory on my IA32 gentoo box).
  * ./configure
  * make
  * sudo make install
  then add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and /sbin/ldconfig (sudo'ed)

  * xine dvd:/

Alternately (or addtionally), download and build Mplayer (1.0pre5). Use 
-disable-altivec (alas); install dev packages of any other multimedia 
stuff you think may be useful. Mplayer installs into /usr/local. Then 
that plays DVDs just fine too (at least on my 1GHz G4 Powerbook).

-jonathan