Re: [SLUG] xine

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Tue Dec 14 2004 - 20:49:13 EST


On Tuesday 14 December 2004 06:48 pm, Bob Stia wrote:
> Hello Sluggers,
>
> Running SuSE 9.2 on a 386_64
>
> Want to play DVD's. The installed xine in Suse is broken for "legal
> reasons" Now I know I can go to Packman and get the "unbroken"version.
> Went there and looked. They offer libexine1-1_rc7-0.pm.0.i686.rpm.
> I am thinking this is not what I want because I am running x86_64. Am I
> correct on that ? or will that work, or should I be downloading
> the .src file and compile it.
>
> And, what will i need in addition to the dvdcss file? Should I find a
> source for that also.
>
> Last but not least should I uninstall the present file?
>
> Thanks guys,
> Bob S.

Hmm, I prefer mplayer over xine but that's just my preference. You can google
for the decss file and keep a copy someplace for easy access. It sould not
matter at al whether you use 32 or 64 bit code on AMD-64.

-- 

Steve Szmidt

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