[olug] DVD player on SuSe 10/AMD64?

[John Moran]

My experience with Automatix at this point has been very positive.  My
only complaint is that the option to have the Num Lock on at boot
didn't work for me.

On 3/18/06, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> This will not be much help.  I remember running something "apt-get
> install libdvdcss2" and it required i get a new version of Firefox
> .... that was silly.  The DVDs would work, but Firefox was not
> upgraded properly, broke, and it took a couple hours to fix  firefox,
> java, plugins, and extensions using dpkg.
>
> I will be probably get the retard award for this, but is there any way
> to run apt-get stuff on Suse?  i doubt Automatix would run on anything
> but ubuntu / Debian as well.  An earlier  post to the list praised
> Automatix:
>
> "Quoting from John Moran's email....
>
> And, with the help of "Automatix", all of the media player problems
> have been taken care of as well.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563"
>
> p.s. if you want a Ubuntu CD, i have a couple and RebootTheUser
> probably has some and he may be there till 11:00pm.
>
>
> On 3/18/06, neal rauhauser <neal at lists.rauhauser.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >   OK, this helps much on the DVD playing front. Now its just fussing
> > about encrypted DVDs. Anyone know how to get around this misfeature?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/
> >
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> >
> > neal rauhauser wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >  This is a godawful nuisance. I located the DeCSS stuff but there are a
> > > mass of silly dependencies.
> > >
> > >  This makes me want to pirate every single DVD I lay hands on until the
> > > MPAA is dead and gone.
> > >
> > >
> > >   OK, what is the *simple* route if all I want to do is play a video
> > > like I do on my Mac Mini?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Scott Jones wrote:
> > >> On Saturday 18 March 2006 12:53, neal rauhauser wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>    A while ago I had a link for a repository of SuSe RPMs built for
> > >>> AMD64 that had all sorts of multimedia support. Anyone know where this
> > >>> stuff is? DVD player duty is the last process I need to move from Mac to
> > >>> SuSe.
> > >>
> > >> Packman, perhaps?  ftp://packman.links2linux.de/pub/packman/MIRRORS
> > >> for a list of mirrors.  I'd recommend avoiding the mirror in Bremen,
> > >> as it tends to fall over quite a bit, and the Unixheads mirror is dog
> > >> slow at best.
> > >>
> > >> You'll also need libdvdcss2, which Packman can't directly provide due
> > >> to German law.  I'll send the link privately, due to the equally
> > >> asinine US laws.
> > >>
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