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DVD support?
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @01:17

I see that there is a screenshot of Finding Nemo on DVD. Does that mean that LinDVD (the stated player) is packaged as a working DVD player? By default SUSE has disabled DVD playback on xine and MPlayer for legal reasons (on easy download of MPlayer "fixes" this). Is legal playback of DVDs available 'out of the box' for these laptops?

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Re: DVD support?
by Ingo Klöcker on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @02:21

FWIW, at least the Notebook that I got at aKademy has LinDVD installed.

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Re: DVD support?
by Asdex on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @12:33

And how does it compare to Ogle/Xine/Mplayer?

Does it feel like a native linux application or more like a wine-based quick-and-dirty port?

Btw., MPlayer does not support DVD-menus but at least it is able to play everything - even /dev/random :

mplayer -rawvideo on:w=320:h=200 /dev/urandom

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Re: DVD support?
by KDE User on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @13:21

Even encrypted DVDs? How? I play everything like DivX no problem even when Windows folks have to go around chasing the latest codec, it still seems to work on MPlayer. But DVDs, how? It doesn't usually work for encrypted ones.

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Re: DVD support?
by Charles Hill on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @13:47

I'm not sure about the HP, but with Linspire you can purchase a DVD player for $4.95 if you're a Click-N-Run member.

Basically it is Xine with a licensed decryption module. It worked flawlessly for me, and for $4.95 and a quick download, it was a bargain. Even WinXP doesn't play encrypted DVDs out of the box.

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Re: DVD support?
by Andre Somers on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @14:36

Just install DeCCS and it works. At least, I have not yet seen a DVD that does not work in my machine.

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Re: DVD support?
by Barnard on Thursday 08/Feb/2007, @00:25

Hi,

I read you ( http://dot.kde.org/1094715499/1094717854/ ) and I'm looking for DeCCS software, if you have this one could you be so kind to send me it ? I'ts getting more and more difficult to find it ... :-)

Many thanks in advance,

Best regards,
BT

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Re: DVD support?
by Willie Sippel on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @19:27

I don't know why, but MPlayer supports DVD menues for me, as does xine-lib IIRC...

I usually use the MPlayer backend for KMPlayer, and MPlayer is compiled with libmpdvdkit for DVD support.

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Re: DVD support?
by Thomas Schneller on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @00:45

>Is legal playback of DVDs available 'out of the box' for these laptops?

Yes. LinDVD ist part of the pre-install.

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Re: DVD support?
by anon on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @12:28

I'm assuming LinDVD is a commercial product, and is licensed to read CSS encrypted DVDs. Suse's desktop Linux must include this by default.

You won't see anything like that in the downloadable Mandrake or Fedora, since it relies on non-OSS software.

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