[nzlug] Xine codecs and Mepis

[Simon]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 23:05 +1200, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> Somewhere about Mon, 06-Aug-2007 at 09:44AM +1200 (give or take), Nick Rout wrote:

> But aren't there [codecs] to do with encryption?  I find that PuppyLinux
> can play the DVDs in question without anything additional from what
> comes in its 93 Mb iso file.  Could it be that Mepis has to keep its
> nose clean and avoid any danger of lawsuits?

That isn't thought of as a "codec" - it's encryption or "css". The
package is usually called libdvdcss<something>. 

libdvdcss is legally murky.

have you tried the howto in the ubuntu wiki?