DVD Source Plugin

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Hello,

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Patrick
O'Callaghan<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 18:24 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Patrick
>> O'Callaghan<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:36 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >>   When I try to play a movie DVD with Movie Player, it correctly
>> >> identifies the title of the movie, but when I try to play it, it says
>> >> "The playback of this movie requires a DVD source plugin which is not
>> >> installed."
>> >>
>> >>   Is there such a plugin in the Fedora repository? Or what are the
>> >> options? Thanks!
>> >
>> > Do you have libdvdcss? If not, install from the Livna repo.
>>
>>   I installed it from atrpms and rebooted and still get the same error message.
>
> You didn't need to reboot. Anyway, is this a commercial DVD or some
> strange rip you downloaded? Note that some of these are designed to run
> only on Windows and often contain spyware.
>
> Have you tried other players, such as Dragon or VLC?

  A commercial DVD, presumably original. VLC can play it, thanks!

     Take care
     Oliver

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Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist
BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax)
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
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