Can you play rented dvds in mythtv?

lagu2653 · 10-25-2005, 05:56 PM

Can you play rented dvds in mythdvd/tv? From Block buster? I saw that there was some problems with encoded dvds. Are rented dvds encoded?

herbc · 10-25-2005, 11:05 PM

Most are. I think libdvdcss will unencrypt them... but, in the US it is illegal to bypass encryption on copyrighted works like rented dvd's from Blockbuster.

Kerrysl · 10-25-2005, 11:23 PM

Yep what a weird piece of legislation. It should be totally illegal to bypass for the purpose of duplication and resale, but surely a user should have the freedom to use the hardware of their choice to play the purchased medium.

arharvey · 03-20-2006, 01:53 PM

I agree.
This is particularly weird as far as I'm concerned because I had DVD Player software that came with my LG DVD Burner I recently purchased. This libdvdcss is a particularly miserable piece of software to get working ... lots of dependencies and such... I finally gave up trying.

Michael_aust · 03-20-2006, 02:45 PM

If you are runnign a debian system then its oonly one packages libdvdcss from marilat or what ever its called. mepis has it already enabled in it slist of repos. its has no dependences when i have installed it on mepis 3.3.1 and 3.4 rc2 and mandriva 06 and debain etch standard net install.

arharvey · 03-20-2006, 04:14 PM

Well ALRIGHT!!!!!

libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb <---- load THIS first
libdvdcss2-dev_1.2.8-1_i386.deb <---- then load this one

NOW you can watch rented dvds from Kaffeine ....

MEPIS RULES !!!!!!