On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:53:29PM -0500, Andrew Barr wrote: > There is a lot of information on this subject: a lot of out-of-date > information. I would like to play some of my DVDs on my Debian laptop. > Yes, that includes (all?) those encrypted with CSS. I am not against > building packages from source code but I'd like to avoid doing so as to > keep things within the dpkg database.
equivs is good for this. > Here's the thing that absolutely pisses me off: Late last night I was > able to get xine to play a DVD, an encrypted DVD. I couldn't get any > sound, so I decided to leave it alone for the time being and try again > in the morning. Now it won't play the discs at all: It says it can't > read the NAV packets and the console has errors from libdvdcss saying > there were errors getting the CSS key. Not having any kind of DVD drive, I don't have any knowledge of playing DVDs in Debian (though I have downloaded the libdvdcss source for future-proofing in case any of these nasty lawsuits actually succeed :-) )... but if you haven't changed anything, and you haven't had a cron job etc. change anything, I'd be inclined on general principles to suspect the DVD drive. Does it still play non-encrypted DVDs? If not, clean the lens... if yes, I've no idea I'm afraid. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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