I am unable to play commercial DVDs on my dvd rom any suggestions?

fatenabu · 10-04-2004, 01:51 PM

Hello,
I tried to be specific in my thread subject. It apeasrs I am unable to play commercial dvds on my dvd player. I have tried everything from Star Trek The Motion Picture to Transformers: The Movie.. Any suggestions on how to get them to play. I can play un commercial one though...I was using xine to play the non-commerical ones

Thanks,

Dustin

Electro · 10-04-2004, 02:17 PM

You will need to install dvdcss. Then re-compile xine.

gojamiegirl · 10-04-2004, 02:21 PM

Most commercial DVDs are encrypted with something called CSS (I think it's "Content Scrambling System"). To play these discs on a Linux system you need to install something called "libdvdcss". This is not included with many Linux distributions because on legal concerns.

I use Totem Media Player and once I install the libdvdcss RPM DVDs play fine. No configuration is needed.

reddazz · 10-04-2004, 04:07 PM

You only need to recompile Xine if you can't find prepackaged versions of xine and libdvdcss for your distribution.