Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

[Girish Kulkarni <girish@athene.org.in>]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
>
> Do you have libdvdcss installed?

Thanks for the replies.  I don't have libdvdcss installed.  But now
I'm confused.  I thought I shouldn't need libdvdcss if my drive's
region code is set correctly, which it is now -- I have a region 5 DVD
in a region 5 player.

According to its authors, libdvdcss is "designed for accessing DVDs
like a block device without having to bother about the decryption."  I
don't want to do that; I just want to decrypt what I should be able to
decrypt.

Or am I getting things wrong here?

> > Regionset smoothly changed the drive's region code to 5. 
>
> Are you aware that you usually cannot change the drive's region code
> an arbitrary amount of times? At least from what I know, in Europe
> you can only change the region code five times after which it is
> unchangeable.  J.

Yes, thanks.  I knew that.  Regionset told me that I have five chances
at changing the drive's region code setting, out of which I have now
consumed one.

Girish.

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