From: Mike M. <mel...@pc...> - 2002-11-21 21:39:26
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Mark Fox wrote: > I just had my faith in xine shaken. My wife bought me the > LOTR Extended Edition and it turns out xine can't play it. I take it > that nobody else has got it to play through xine, can anybody confirm? > > Anybody know what the problem is or any way that I might be > able to help solve it? (I suspect the problem is libdvdcss related, but I > thought I would ask here as well as there.) > > In any case, consider yourself warned. Don't go buy this one > if you want to watch it with xine. Heck, don't buy this one in > protest. Hmm, let's not be so hasty here. This is a very popular DVD right now so it seems likely that many xine users would have tried it by now. It seems we would have heard more about such problems before now. Some questions: 1) What version of xine-lib/xine-ui are you using (should be 0.9.13 or higher)? 2) Have you been able to view DVDs up to this point? 3) Were they the encrypted variety of DVDs? 4) What region is this LOTR DVD? 5) Important: How, exactly, is it failing to play? Are you menus messed up? Is the video or audio scrambled? Does the disc somehow pop up a dialog saying "Detected that you are trying to view LOTR via Linux; denied!"? The latter might be a cause for protest, but if not, let's try to work through the problem. Help me out, team: Is there a blacklist of DVDs (or categories of DVDs) that are absolutely known to not work with xine? I sincerely doubt it. Thanks... -- -Mike Melanson |