On Monday 01 January 2007 19:40, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> I've not come across this problem before. Most of my DVDs
play
> correctly. Is this an additional drm layer or similar?
I do not know why you are having problems with xine.
But you have to fix libavcodec, which is part of ffmpeg.
ffmpeg contains all of the codecs: DivX3,4,5, xvid, aac, a52, etc...
In windows, it is known by ffdshow. It is the heart of mplayer.
ffmpeg can be downloaded from freshrpms (FC6):
http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=801
or, if you are not using FC6, then I suggest you to get ffmpeg from ATrpms:
http://atrpms.net/name/ffmpeg/
If you want just to play dvds, the best program is vlc, also available
in freshrpms.
It has a better control of dvd menus.
http://www.videolan.org/
/Paulo Roma.
Thanks for the info, Paulo. I'm not very au fait with codecs, which is why I
asked. It's not really 'my thing', but it is nice, sometimes to be able to
play a disk. Actually, to be really honest, it just peeves me that someone
can try to stop me viewing something that I've legally bought :-) It's a bit
like saying that I can buy a book, but I can't read it on the train, in bed
or in the bath :-)
Anne