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Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop

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On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, notbob wrote:

> On 2013-06-27, Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.home.org> wrote:
>> I watch commercial DVDs on my Slackware box, and it only took one
>> external package to accomplish it.  You have to get and install
>> libdvdcss to do the actual decryption of the DVD.  Slackware comes
>> with libdvdread and xine, and with those two packages and libdvdcss,
>> you can watch DVDs.  Easy-peasy.
>
> Well, almost, though it does shake one's confidence to see such an
> obvious solution put forth.  Why I thought I needed to install all of
> vlc, I no longer recall.
>
> While your suggestion does indeed work, it doesn't work well.  Playing
> a dvd via my usb dvd player/burner and xine yields herky-jerky
> playback.  No doubt due to my ancient hardware, a wimpy 1.5MHz P4 mobo
> with a mere 847M RAM.  I think the USB is 1.5, though it may be 2.0.
> OTOH, playback works much better with LiMP, the ancient (2005) 100M
> liveCD, though that has probs too, like accumulated packets piling up
> and disrupting playback.  So, I gotta pause and let system catch up
> about every 10 mins, then continue.  DVDs might play better on my
> box'es IDE dvd player, which I'm loathe to use cuz I must partially
> disassemble case and open player drawer manually, its digital eject
> function and manual button unreliable.  Bottom line, I need a new damn
> system!, which I'm currently researching.  Besides, jes got another
> TV, so can go back to watching dvds with old std dvd player.
>
> Anyway, thank you for the suggestion.  It would probably work
> better with a faster system.  We shall see.  ;)
>
> nb
>
Now I remember.  There was a time when I did play DVDs on my 1GHz 
computer, not much but I could.  I can't even remember what I did to do 
that, either I did have to do something simple or Slackware at the time 
did it out of the box.

But then my DVDROM drive started generating endless error messages, just 
playing a bit would cause a lot of messages.  And so I gave up, a few 
months later got a replacement drive, and I don't remember ever trying a 
DVD since.

I should fix that, especially since i'm now using a compuer 3 times as 
fast and with 4 times the RAM.

   Michael

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FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-17 17:36 +0000
  Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-06-17 12:58 -0500
  Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-06-17 13:53 -0500
    Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-17 20:25 +0000
      Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-06-17 22:16 +0100
        Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-06-17 17:26 -0500
          Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Soupe du Jour <soupedujour2000@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 13:41 +0000
            Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-06-25 15:49 +0200
      Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop buck <buck@private.mil> - 2013-06-18 21:47 +0000
        Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-18 22:52 +0000
          Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop buck <buck@private.mil> - 2013-06-18 23:02 +0000
          Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2013-06-18 16:06 -0700
  Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-06-17 15:41 -0400
    Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-17 20:43 +0000
      Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-06-17 16:19 -0500
      Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-06-17 21:23 +0000
      Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-20 00:41 +0000
      Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2013-06-20 18:04 +0000
  Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.home.org> - 2013-06-26 22:57 -0700
    Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-27 12:19 +0000
      Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-06-27 13:28 -0400
        Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-06-27 19:35 +0000
          Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2013-06-27 21:39 +0200
            Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.home.org> - 2013-06-27 20:31 -0700
            Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-06-28 09:45 +0100
            Re: FYI: playing encrypted DVDs on yer desktop JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-06-28 15:36 -0500

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