[nzlug] Xine codecs and Mepis

[Toby Collett]

This came up a few days ago on this list, to play commercial DVD's (i.e.
region locked DVD's etc) you need to install libdvdcss. On ubuntu (and maybe
debian) based distros there is a script installed with libdvdread
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh which will install libdvdcss from
a 3rd party website. This cant be hosted by the main distribution for legal
reasons. Also mediabuntu has a bunch of packages related to non open codecs
etc.

Toby


On 08/08/07, Simon <corwin at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
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