Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your >> computer, you either have to run proprietary software (which >> contains a licensed descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key >> using something like libdvdcss. > > Thanks for explaining. Although, if every DVD is CSS encrypted, I > should have needed libdvdcss to play even those DVDs that are region > marked ALL. That doesn't happen -- I can play all those DVDs. (Or > maybe, I happened to have only unencrypted DVDs till now.) > > Will try installing libdvdcss later today and see if that helps me > play region 5 DVDs. But another question: libdvdcss is GPL'ed; why is > it not in any of the Debian repositories then? I'm also hoping to > find its legal status here in India. > > Thanks, > Girish. > I guess because some of the repos are in USA and it is illegal there, so they cannot host it... I think that you can find it if you add in your sources.list the repo you will find in this site: http://debian-multimedia.org/ G.
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