Re: [Sheflug] DVD movies under Linux.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:12:50PM +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> > >
> > > Since Alex mentioned DVDs in the CDROM thread, I was wondering if anyone
> > > had put any time into trying to play DVD movie disks under Linux.
> > >
> > >  I've had a look at Livid.org, but haven't had a go downloading the
> > > stuff yet. Are there any other options - including retail?
> >
> > The livid tools homepage is www.linuxvideo.org nowadays. They do
> > daily snapshots via CVS, but to be honest I haven't been able to
> > get any of them to compile properly yet.
> 
> Add to this the little-known Heroine freak Adam Mormonator Williams, and his
> Heroine Warriors.
> 
> http://heroinewarrior.com/
> 
> but the site is usually narfed.
> 
> So check
> 
> http://heroines.sourceforge.net/xmovie.html
> 
> Recommended. You may need your own copy of
> that-program-that-doesn't-strip-style-tags-from-html-pages, if you know what
> I mean :))

 Can't say I do. *Looks dense*

 The only DVD I have in the house is the crap demo thing that shipped
with the PC I got the DVD drive in. It runs OK with a Windoze box with
DVD playback s/w, but my Linux box refuses to let me mount it as a
filesystem as type iso9660 or auto. Am I missing something?
 I'm sure I've looked at the filesystem on DVDs I've rented in the past
under Linux (but obviously not played them back).

 The XMovie player, according to the changelog appears to have had deCSS
removed a good few versions back - so I guess that is of no use for
playing back the one type of DVD that interests me - commerical movie
DVDs (Matrix + Fight Club for a start! ;-)

 I have downloaded the binary, and at least that runs, which is more
than I can say about the Linuxvideo stuff, I simply cannot figure it
out. It *seems* to compile OK, but the commands can't be found (by me -
something I'm not good at, or the machine).
 The libraries are in /usr/local/lib/ however.

 Help?

 Baz. 

 

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