DVD on Fedora

[Robin Laing]

Peter Collier wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 05:55, Trevor Smith wrote:
> 
>>On October 7, 2004 3:27 pm, David Mamanakis wrote:
> 
> snip
> 
>>And, in answer to your question, I also went looking for a DVD player a few 
>>weeks ago and tried xine and liked it.
>>
>>There is a step that no one has mentioned here yet that tripped me up though. 
>>My system had no idea where my DVD player was (it's the same as my CD 
>>player). I had to do this:
>>
>>ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd
>>
>>(which creates a symbolic link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd so software looking 
>>for /dev/dvd knows that it's the same think as my /dev/cdrom.) Just in case 
>>you run into the same problem...
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Trevor Smith // trevor at haligonian.com
> 
> 
> I've installed xine and the libdvdcss to allow playback of DVDs. I've
> done this a few times in the past with different distros, including FC1
> and had no problems. I've now installed on FC2 but when playing a DVD, I
> get a series of different pages coming up relating to copywrites for
> different countries. Then the screen blanks and I get a message on the
> lines of you perhaps don't have permission to view this video, or
> something like that. Anyone got any clues as to what is wrong, or to
> alter?
> 
> Peter.
> 

Sounds like country (region) code issue.

Your DVD player my be set for a different region.

Some players will allow you to change/reset the region code but only a 
limited number of times.  Search Google on this.  My links are at home.

-- 
Robin Laing