On 23.03.15 11:04, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> writes:
Since www.progress-linux.org is closed for maintenance, I'll compile libdvdcss - tomorrow. ATM sleep beckons.
Yeaaaaaah, you don't really want that one. It just mentions that one because it's dba's distro and dba wrote that advice.
This is what I've been doing for stupid DVD users, on wheezy:
wget -O- http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/videolan-apt.asc | apt-key add - echo 'deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /' >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/30decss.list apt-get update apt-get install libdvdcss2
It works for me.
(PS: well, actually I'm using [trusted=yes] instead of adding the key.)
Many thanks for the heads up, Trent. On returning to the task yesterday, I did just go to item 1 on the list: http://download.videolan.org/debian/ and simply download libdvdcss2_1.2.13-0_i386.deb , then whack it with dpkg -i. That seems to be the same as the apt-get with [trusted=yes], without any sources.list pollution. When I saw your post, I had hoped that the above links pointed to another library, because I've tried a movie with the videolan library, and while it plays, the only colour is some faint green and red diagonal stripes on a black and white picture. If that's not due to library limitations, then perhaps it's just that the on-board graphics: $ lspci ... 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01) is OK with youtube clips, but can't shovel fast enough for a full movie. I'm not sure it's worth spending a couple of hundred bucks for a faster machine, just so more can be spent on more DVDs, few of which I'd want to watch. If there's a good linux-compatible graphics card with modest power consumption, then the mobo has exactly one PCI slot, and it's still spare. That sounds like a more proportionate investment. Erik -- "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity. -Alfred N. Whitehead