Playing a DVD

[Henk Koster]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:26:46 -0700, Adam D wrote:

> I hope it is ok to jump onto the thread?
> 
> I have a new AMD64 and have not been able to play commercial DVDs.  I see the very beginning video and when the encrypted part starts up.. xine quites on me.  I took the advise and when to the link up above and followed all the instructions.  However when it got to this section I am dead in the water.
> 
>       Installing libdvdcss2
> 
>             Applies to the AMD64 architecture only:
>                   The install-css.sh script will compile the libdvdcss2 library for you instead of downloading a prebuilt binary. Make sure you install the debhelper, build-essential and fakeroot packages first. Then issue the command
> 
>                   sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
> 
> 
> Since I have AMD64 I ran the above script with all the proper packages installed above I get these errors:
> 
> <snip>

It worked just fine in my case... In addition to the packages
mentioned, I also always install libtool, autoconf and automake1.9.
Why don't you install those as well, and see how it goes.