Re: DVD playing on FC5

Thomas Jespersen wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:01:00 +0000, Baho Utot wrote:


Is there a HowTo to setup DVD playing and burning on Fedora Core 5.

Not to put this newsgroup down, but fedoraforum.org is an excellent
place to search for your fedora problems. Found this link for you:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=106220

I have not tried FC5, but my experience from other distributions is
that DVD-burning "just works". However my search also found this
thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=101102

There's a legal problem with it: DVD viewers, at least of encrypted DVD's
like most commercial ones, require the libdvdcss library or its equivalent,
and that's been ruled illegal for a bunch of nasty
Hollywood-industry-protecting and fairly nonsensical reason. At last look,
thee was *NO* legal player for encrypted DVD's.

That said, the "Xine" package has a lot of fans, and is available at:

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/xine/



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