Re: [Sheflug] DVD movies under Linux.

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> > 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*

A lot of webpages are styled by Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. If one were
to remove such tags, the program might be called UnCSS, or something
similar....

>  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?

Yes. :) DVDs aren't iso9660. If auto doesn't work, you don't have dvdfs in
your kernel (udf).

>  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).

Different kernel perhaps?

>  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! ;-)

It's the best player around. If you want to get around the encryption, of
course you need deCSS, or you can get a commercial player (I'm sure one was
released not long ago? Can't remember...). In any case, you pretty much need
deCSS

>  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).

What do you mean, 'can't be found'? If they're in the current directory,
then it's ./command, surely??

>  The libraries are in /usr/local/lib/ however.

Done a locate on it?

Cheers,

Alex.

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