[ale] Playing DVDs on FC1

[Dow_Hurst]

Under suse the link http://www.iiv.de/schwinde/buerger/tremmel/downloads/script_rpm4/install_libdvdcss2 is a script that will download the decryption library for dvds and compile and install it for you.  Now, this is under suse.  So you would have to take a look at the script and see how to modify it for fedora core1, if that is possible.  Once this is installed, Mplayer under suse from packman will pick that right up and use it.  Don't know about Xine or Ogle except you will need that library to view typical commercial DVDs for sure.  The read error on Ogle makes me wonder if that is all your missing.  Any reason you can't update to SUSE9.x or 10 and use the packman rpms of Mplayer, Win32codecs and so on?  Makes it very convenient.
Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net>
>Sent: Feb 28, 2006 1:17 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: [ale] Playing DVDs on FC1
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>Anyone here still running Fedora Core 1?  My friend needs a DVD player
>that will actually play DVDs on FC1. We've tried MPlayer (builds cleanly,
>crashes when run with a segv and a message that "this should never happen"),
>and Ogle (builds cleanly, exits cleanly if you actually try to play a DVD,
>saying something like "<blah blah blah> READ_TITLE() failed"). I haven't
>had time to investigate very far, but neither Google nor the respective
>FAQs for the products in question has been helpful.
>
>Has anyone seen either of those products working under FC1?
>
>I suppose I could try upgrading my friend's machine to a more recent
>distro, but I've gotten the impression that Fedora upgrades are rarely
>smooth. Is that impression accurate?  I've done a number of
>configuration changes to his machine, and also a couple of
>"configure/make/make install" dances to put stuff in /usr/local,
>and it would seriously suck for those things not to work properly
>after an upgrade.
>
>Any advice would be appreciated,
>
>-- JK
>
>
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