Playing a DVD

[Henk Koster]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:55:08 -0700, Adam D wrote:

> Henk Koster wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Henk,
> 
> I am wondering if there are some dev files I maybe missing because no mater what I do with the ./configure file I  keep on getting errors.  Are there some dev packages that should be installed?  Maybe I may have over looked a few.  I have all the packages that are recommended by others, Ubuntu Wiki, and you but I still have the same results.
> 
> Of late compiling has been a miss.
> 
> -Adam

Hard to say... kernel-headers may be? garbage collector libgc?