Re: DVDs - err what gives?

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:39 +0000, andy wrote:
  

Went to play my Pink Floyd "Live at Pompei" DVD and was told that it was 
encrypted and that I couldn't play it without libdvdcss. Apparently, 
libdvdcss doesn't exist in its own right as something that apt-get can 
install, but is referenced by other apps, such as gxine (already 
installed) and ogle (which was installed, but I uninstalled it), and 
libdvdread3 (which I already have installed).

What do I do now?
    

There are distribution issues with the DeCSS code. 

All Debian packages install documentation to /usr/share/doc/packagename
so you need to navigate to /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/ and read
README.Debian.

Basically, you need to install libdvdcss2 from an unofficial Debian
archive.

Hope this helps, 

  

Hello Sven

Cheers for the response.

Well, I'll be a primate's mother's brother: all the warning seemed to do was just to give a warning re: verification. I changed my sources list as noted previously and apt-get install libdvdcss2 and it worked like a charm. Now that is *very* cool!!

Thanks Christian for the package and others here for the help.

Off to watch "Saucerful of Secrets" now ... he he he

/A