Re: Playing DVDs on Debian

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 12:35, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 00:31, Adam wrote:
> > I have been trying for the past couple of years trying to play DVDs on
> > my Linux box and every time I run into some road blocks.  i have
> > studied what other people have asked in the archives with a search of
> > DVD in the subject and body and also in the users.debian lists also. 
> > I have read and tried the many suggestions and can not figure why I 
> > am having some issues.  
> > 
> > These are my recent steps I  have taken lately.
> 
> <--SNIP-->
> 
> > 2.  When I run gxine I get this output on the terminal
> 
> <--SNIP-->
> 
> > libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc4a from http://xine.sf.net
> > libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
> 
> <--SNIP-->
> 
> Do you have libdvdcss2 installed?  Then you can read the CSS encrypted
> DVD and then it should probably work.
> 
> You can download it:
> 
> http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/debian/mplayer/libdvdcss2_1.2.8-0.0_powerpc.deb
> 
> and install it as sudo/root with:
> 
> dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.8-0.0_powerpc.deb
> 

I just tried xine with libdvdnav4, libdvdread3 and libdvdcss2 1.2.8 and
it crashed as you described.  Using totem instead (based on the
underlying xine libs at the moment) did not crash though it did output
the same errors.

--mike