On Sunday 13 July 2008 09:58:49 pm Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Bob Stia wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 July 2008 06:08:16 pm Eben King wrote:
> >> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Matthew Rogers wrote:
> >>> Eben King wrote:
> >>>> If I mount the disc, I get a read error at the beginning of
> >>>> VTS_01_*.BUP . Could this machine not support DVD encryption?
> >>>
> >>> Try VLC
> >>
> >> If /bin/cp can't read it, I fail to see how VLC could.
> >
> > Eben,
> >
> > If this is a commercial DVD,
>
> It is.
>
> > do you have libdvdcss installed?
>
> Don't see that in Synaptic's (apt-get's) listing. I have libdvdread3
> installed; the description says
>
> ,--
>
> | library for reading DVDs
> | libdvdread provides the functionality that is required to access many
> | DVDs. It parses IFO files, reads NAV-blocks, and performs CSS
> | authentication and descrambling.
> |
> | libdvdread currently uses libdl to dynamically probe for libdvdcss at
> | runtime. If found, libdvdcss will be used to decrypt sections of the DVD
> | as necessary.
>
> '--
>
> libdl isn't installed, and neither it nor libdvdcss is listed. Are they
> packaged somewhere in a convenient .deb, or should I use the source (Luke)?
Yes, you probably need libdvdcss installed. Don't know what libdl is but you
probably do not need it. I know from nothing about .deb. libdvdcss is not
a "legal" library. Do a google on it. You might find a deb out there in
nether land. If not.....there is always the source.
Bob S
>
> While we're at it, what player will interpret DVD menus instead of the
> fully-manual method I've been using with mplayer?
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