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Re: [LUG] Portable DVD Player

 

On 09/12/2018 10:10, Richard Brown wrote:
> in the end, attached it to a windows box and it worked perfectly.
 This is because Windows has paid for right to use the proprietary
CODECS,  and thus the DVD with copyright protection plays OK.
(It [CODECS and right to use licence] are within the Windows OS up to
version windows 7, maybe 8 - 8.1 but windows 10 does NOT include
proprietary CODECS (saves Microsoft money) and thus the DVD with
copyright protection plays OK.

Normally libdvdcss installed cures that. However check your exact distro
requirement to play protected DVDs. Some will not except by going
outside the legal distro repositories (USA based distros risk infinite
amounts of money in lawsuits if they give access to DVDs).
Refer fr example
http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php


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Eion MacDonald

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