Re: [SLE] Automount/Kaffeine complaints (rant)

Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 07:56 schrieb Bob S:
> Hello SuSE people,
>
> Running 10.0 and KDE 3.5 on an AMD 64.
> I am not sure if it is an automount problem or what.
>
> I put a movie DVD into the dvdplayer and wait a second or two. Then the
> automounter asks me what I want to do. I select "open with Kaffeine" Then I
> get the following message; "This version of Xine (used by Kaffeine) has
> only a reduced set of supported codecs. It is not able to play DVDs.
> Read
> http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/en/2003/09/xine_dvd
>.html for further details.
>
> Now keep in mind that this is supposedly the "uncrippled " version from
> Packman.
>
> Then I go to that Novell URL and it is not found, changed, or whatever.
> Zero results.
>
> So, we are back to square one. I have installed every known set of
> supporting libraries/codecs known to man at this time. Cannot get this to
> open like it was "designed/ should"???
>
> OK, try another route. Now, I can navigate myself to /media/dvdrecorder and
> the .vob files, click on them, and Kaffeine opens and plays the movie
> perfectly. Why does it complain that it can't open the file when If you
> directly go to the file it works?
>
> Can anybody shed any light on this? I am really beginning to dislike this
> automount stuff and am thinking of disabling all of it. (Have trouble with
> audio CDs opening properly also.) But that is another story and a step
> backwards, isn't it?
>
> Please excuse this rant but by now I would think that all of these things
> should be sorted out. I have run SuSE since 7.0 and I keep hoping that
> every (bought and paid) upgrade will finally be the one where everything
> works. Wrong! Will SuSE 11.2 be the one? I guess we will see.
>
> Just frustrated, sorry, Can anybody help?
>
> Bob S.

Have you installed libdvdcss? It is on Packman for legal reasons - it is
illegal to distribute or use it! You need this library installed to watch
DVD's. Without it, even with all of the other codecs DVD's don't normally
work - unless they are un-encrypted DVD's.

You will have to search around for a server which is in a country where it
isn't illegal to have deCSS library, download it and install it. Be aware,
that, theoretically once you have the library on your machine you could be
liable to prosecution - depending on where you live, but I think US, UK and
Germany at least, you would be breaking the law...

Do a search on the packman website for libdvdcss and it will tell you where to
look for it, but that it is illegal for them to host the library because of
the laws about software which circumvents copy protection (a sort of German
version of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, where it comes to copy
protection).

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