[olug] DVD player on SuSe 10/AMD64?

neal rauhauser neal at lists.rauhauser.net
Sun Mar 19 03:13:06 UTC 2006



  OK, this helps much on the DVD playing front. Now its just fussing 
about encrypted DVDs. Anyone know how to get around this misfeature?




http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/









neal rauhauser wrote:
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> 
>  This is a godawful nuisance. I located the DeCSS stuff but there are a 
> mass of silly dependencies.
> 
>  This makes me want to pirate every single DVD I lay hands on until the 
> MPAA is dead and gone.
> 
> 
>   OK, what is the *simple* route if all I want to do is play a video 
> like I do on my Mac Mini?
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> Scott Jones wrote:
>> On Saturday 18 March 2006 12:53, neal rauhauser wrote:
>>
>>>    A while ago I had a link for a repository of SuSe RPMs built for
>>> AMD64 that had all sorts of multimedia support. Anyone know where this
>>> stuff is? DVD player duty is the last process I need to move from Mac to
>>> SuSe.
>>
>> Packman, perhaps?  ftp://packman.links2linux.de/pub/packman/MIRRORS 
>> for a list of mirrors.  I'd recommend avoiding the mirror in Bremen, 
>> as it tends to fall over quite a bit, and the Unixheads mirror is dog 
>> slow at best.
>>
>> You'll also need libdvdcss2, which Packman can't directly provide due 
>> to German law.  I'll send the link privately, due to the equally 
>> asinine US laws.
>>
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