Fedora Core 3 Wishlist

Trond Are Haugland trondare at trolltech.com
Mon Jun 7 15:37:46 UTC 2004


Chadley Wilson wrote:
> They all have support for avi, mpeg, and vobs (not encrypted) and many
> other formats. DVD is supported in mplayer and Xine by default. But
> encrypted dvds are not. I have several unencrypted dvds which I have
> made myself from my video camera. and they play with defaults. To add
> dvd encrypted support you must install libdvdcss,
> and thats all.

I agree, there should be unencrypted support. On the other hand, for most
others it won't make a difference since all their dvd's are encrypted.

> Maybe some one could explain why we don't do it that way. I don't know
> what the legal problem is exaclty. Maybe I don't know something

Isn't decrypting dvd's without a license against the law in most countries?

> Yes but when you have no internet connection you rely and a stiffy or
> memstick,
> To install the players involve solving dependancies which means it could
> take you a up to a week of transporting packages from work to home
> before you have downloaded all the goodies that you need to get the
> player working.

Without an internet connection you pretty much have this problem with
_any_ package that you need which is not included on the dvd.

> If I only had to add libdvdcss like mandrake and many others then it
> would make life so much better.
> Bear in mind there is no list some where that tells you what
> dependancies to expect. So for me I have learn't but for others who are
> new to linux, If the a few more things worked out of box we would need a
> new mailing list to cope with all our supporters from south africa.

One needs xine, xine-lib and libdvdcss I think. There, ask the guys 
responsible
for www.fedorafaq.org to put that in, and these issues are solved.





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