Re: [SLUG] can't play DVDs

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2008 - 21:58:49 EDT


On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Bob Stia wrote:

> On Sunday 13 July 2008 06:08:16 pm Eben King wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Matthew Rogers wrote:
>>> Eben King wrote:
>>>> If I mount the disc, I get a read error at the beginning of VTS_01_*.BUP
>>>> . Could this machine not support DVD encryption?
>>>
>>> Try VLC
>>
>> If /bin/cp can't read it, I fail to see how VLC could.
>
> Eben,
>
> If this is a commercial DVD,

It is.

> do you have libdvdcss installed?

Don't see that in Synaptic's (apt-get's) listing. I have libdvdread3
installed; the description says

,--
| library for reading DVDs
| libdvdread provides the functionality that is required to access many
| DVDs. It parses IFO files, reads NAV-blocks, and performs CSS
| authentication and descrambling.
|
| libdvdread currently uses libdl to dynamically probe for libdvdcss at
| runtime. If found, libdvdcss will be used to decrypt sections of the DVD
| as necessary.
'--

libdl isn't installed, and neither it nor libdvdcss is listed. Are they
packaged somewhere in a convenient .deb, or should I use the source (Luke)?

While we're at it, what player will interpret DVD menus instead of the
fully-manual method I've been using with mplayer?

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