ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Monday 26 February 2007 09:52 am, Bayard Coolidge wrote:
> I'm still trying to get DVDs to play on my x86_64-based SuSE 10.2
> system; Kaffeine complains that the DVD is encrypted, and neither it nor
> VLC can make use of libdvdcss-1.2.8-2.network.i386.rpm or
> libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm. I suspect that their files need to be
> installed in some arcane directory somewhere, but the last dozen or two
> that I've tried don't seem to do the trick, and there's no x86_64.rpm
> available.

I found that DVDCSS couldn't decrypt encoded discs that were region-specific.  
By setting a region on my DVD drive, this was resolved, but since a region 
had never been set on it before, some discs just couldn't be decoded and 
always gave decoding errors.

HTH,
-N