Playing encrypted DVDs with Xine

Jim Higson jh at 333.org
Tue Jul 20 21:16:44 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 20 July 2004 22:06, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 22:02 +0100, Jim Higson wrote:
> > I've played quite a few DVDs before, but with one I hired today I get the
> > message in Xine (or Kaffeine):
> >
> > 	The source seems encrypted, and can't be read.
> > 	Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your
> > 	country laws (sic), you can or can't install/use libdvdcss
> > 	to be able to read this disc, which you bought.
> > 	(Media stream scambled/encrypted)
> >
> > I have libdvdcss installed, xine is refusinig to use it.
> >
> > This is odd. For a start I don't know how Xine knows what country I live
> > in (the uk) and I think the message was more aimed at people living in
> > the US, where, by my understanding, copyright law favours large companies
> > more.
>
> I think you are misinterpreting the message. It looks like they are not
> saying you can't use libdvdcss, they are saying that depending on where
> you live, installing and using libdvdcss may be considered illegal.
>
> I suppose it is possible that xine was compiled to not use libdvdcss,
> which would mean it doesn't matter if you have the library installed. If
> that's the case, rebuilding xine srpm with libdvdcss-devel installed may
> do the trick, or you may have to muck with the srpm for xine to turn on
> a switch or something...

I've just had a look using Synaptic and the package xine-lib on my system has 
a dependency on libdvdcss, so I think xine was compiled to use it.

I'm using packages from the usual repositories - main fedora, livna etc.





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