libdvdcss [quasi OT, quasi not OT]

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 19:09 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Wed, 10/29/08, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca> wrote:
> 
> > From: Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca>
> > Subject: Re: libdvdcss [quasi OT, quasi not OT]
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 6:03 PM
> > On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 11:47 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > The current recommendations are to get it from those
> > still willing to risk
> > > distributing it (rpmfusion currently is not)
> > 
> > Well, this is going to make watching my DVDs on my Fedora
> > desktop pretty
> > damn hard.  It'll ruin the desktop experience for a lot
> > of newbs, not to
> > mention making it a pain in the ass for experienced users.
> > 
> > What's the proposed alternative?  Suppose we can't
> > get libdvdcss at all
> > - how would we watch DVDs then?
> On our PC's right?  
> 
> 1) On Bill's OS
> 2) On regular dvd players which are intended for this (please do not get offended) 
> 3) find/retrieve/store keep copies of libdvdcss source code and compile it on our own, at our own risk, and install it.
> 
> I still like option 3 the best, but as long as I can watch the movie I would not mind option 2 or 1 going in that direction :)
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Resources
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The VideoLAN web site at http://www.videolan.org/ is a good start for
information about MPEG and DVD playing. Have a look at the documentation
section, as well as the bookmarks.

Craig