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Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny



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Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
>
> Totem and VLC fail too.  The disk is probably okay because it played
> on someone's Windows desktop.  What is going wrong?  Can I trust
> regionset?  I checked debian-user archives and looked up on Google --
> regionset seems to have worked for most people.
> 
> Any comments will help.

Do you have libdvdcss2 [1] installed? This is a not-fully-free program
from the multimedia archives [2] that actually does the job of
decrypting the DVD.

Cheers,
Johannes

[1]
$ aptitude show libdvdcss2
Package: libdvdcss2
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.2.10-0.2
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 106k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1)
Replaces: libdvdcss-dev (<= 0.0.3-3), libdvdcss0 (<= 1.0.0-0.0),
libdvdcss2-dev (<= 1.2.10-0.0)
Provides: libdvdcss
Description: Simple foundation for reading DVDs - runtime libraries
 To allow applications to access some of the more advanced features of
the DVD format.
Homepage: http://download.videolan.org/

[2]
$ grep multimedia /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://debian-multimedia.org lenny main
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