Can we play DVD movies under FC3?

[alan]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How can one play DVD movies unofficially under Fedora Core Release 3?
> 
> Here is what I get from XINE:
> [williams at lion ~]$ xine
> This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.2.
> (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc6a from http://xine.sf.net
> libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
> libdvdnav: DVD Title: SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_16X9
> libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 30307D04
> libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_16X9
> libdvdnav: Unable to find map file
> '/home/williams/.dvdnav/SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_16X9.map'
> libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions:
> 1
> libdvdnav: Suspected RCE Region Protection!!!

This means that you have a disc that uses rce.  This is a nasty little 
"enforcement" of regioncodes.  What it does is the disc tries multiple 
regions and if they both succeed then the disc goes to a special failure 
screen. (The Spiderman disc does this as well.)

I am not certain if there is a way to force a region code for a specific 
disc.

I will test it on my fc3 system and see what happens.


> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc6a from http://xine.sf.net
> libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
> libdvdnav: DVD Title: SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_16X9
> libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 30307D04
> libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_16X9
> libdvdnav: Unable to find map file
> '/home/williams/.dvdnav/SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_16X9.map'
> libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions:
> 1
> libdvdnav: Suspected RCE Region Protection!!!
> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc6a from http://xine.sf.net
> libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
> libdvdnav: DVD Title: SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_16X9
> libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 30307D04
> libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_16X9
> libdvdnav: Unable to find map file
> '/home/williams/.dvdnav/SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_16X9.map'
> libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions:
> 1
> libdvdnav: Suspected RCE Region Protection!!!
> 
> Thanks,
> Ernest
> 
> 

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