Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-08-21 00:57, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  The region setting is separate and distinct from whether or 
not the DVD is encrypted.

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