A vlc question

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 30 June 2007 15:07, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I was trying to use vlc to play some video DVDs. It worked on two of
> them but failed on two. All of them were commercial DVDs. I remember
> someone previously  stated a rule for which DVDs vlc will not play.
> Could someone restate the rule?
>
> I could not find any other application to play them either. Is there
> such an application?

Have you installed libdvdcss2, which is needed for decrypting some dvd's.

Mplayer includes it in the package, but vlc, xine, and ogle, etc, all need it.

Freshrpms, or Livna to get it.

Nigel.