Re: [xine-user] Help with Encrypted Discs

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi Dane,

> Yeah I know due to laws in some countries (not mine!), xine doesn't
> (by default) play Encrypted Discs. On Mandrake 8.0 & 8.1, I can get
> all my DVD's to work perfectly. Xine plays better than PowerDVD! My
> problem is that I want to upgrade to a newer OS, namely Mandrake 8.2
> or 9.0 or Redhat 8.0. I have tried all 3 of these and can't get xine
> to play encrypted discs at all (Divx work fine tho). Using the DVDnav
> plugin (with DECSS) it crashes with the following output (on LM9.0):
>
[snip to important part]
> libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.

libdvdread fails to find libdvdcss for the decryption, maybe it got lost 
in the upgrade? Look for a libdvdcss.so.2, if it is not there, 
reinstall the latest libdvdcss from http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/.

Michael

-- 
/*
 * We used to try various strange things. Let's not.
 */
	2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c