Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:56:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: reichert@numachi.com Cc: ragnar@sysabend.org, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD drive. Message-ID: <3744.205.178.90.226.987836206.squirrel@medusa.kfu.com> In-Reply-To: <20010419171054.W20862@numachi.com> References: <20010419171054.W20862@numachi.com>
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[deleting -mobile] It would subject one to litigation to attempt to violate the law so flagrantly. Speaking purely hypothetically, it is possible for someone like me, from a purely theoretical standpoint, to outline the steps one might need to take to play an encrypted DVD on a FreeBSD machine. First, you'll notice that any drive you buy nowadays is region-locked. This means that when you get it from the store, it does not have a region selected. It, therefore, will petulently refuse to play any encrypted content. I believe utilities exist to set the region on *nix, but the last time I encountered such a drive, I just plugged it into a handy Windows machine, played a DVD on it, thus forcing it to set the region. Beware that without certain other (arguably illegal) actions you may be limited to changing the region on your drive a certain number of times. I have had no trouble at all playing unencrypted (pr0n) DVDs using the xine port (aviplay from the avifile port also works well, but has nothing to do with DVDs). I've had no end of problems with xmps, mainly because I use kde and want to build it without gnome (that is, without loading a dozen extra ports for no other reason), and the non-gnome version won't resize the skin for different sizes of video window. xine is still in its infancy, but hopefully it will be ready for prime time just about the time the courts all decide that the DMCA is nonsense. :-) One could theoretically postulate that searching google for +xine +dvd +plugin might yield the location of a version of the dvd plugin for xine that has DeCSS built into it. One might speculate that using this plugin would make encrypted disks function exactly like unencrypted ones for the purposes of playing them back with xine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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