[mythtv-users] Re:DVD playback

Jim Paris jim at jtan.com
Thu Dec 4 03:52:01 EST 2003


> Cool feature; do you have to do anything to enable it, either at runtime 
> or compile-time?  I ask because I have a Pioneer DVD drive (on a machine 
> running Mandrake 9.1) that simply wouldn't play DVDs with MPlayer, Ogle, 
> or Xine until I flashed it region-free.  

Not sure, haven't actually used it much myself, but see
http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/libdvdcss/doc/html/
particularly under environment variable DVDCSS_METHOD.

I did hear somewhere that it was a relatively recent addition, so
maybe your libdvdcss just didn't have it.

-jim


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