encrypted DVD playback

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 08 September 2007 at 18:33, Troy Engel wrote:
> Troy Engel wrote:
> >John Pierce wrote:
> >>I think you might be having a problem with the region setting of the 
> >>drive.
> 
> Thanks again, that was 1/2 the battle with this DVD! Once I set the 
> region code (indeed, it was in a virginal, unset state) and booted back 
> to Fedora I could view a handful of DVDs;

Booted back? You could've done this under Fedora:
# yum install regionset

[...]
> PS: of note mplayer just straight up dies, it's usually the best movie 
> player but in this case it was the worst.

Any details? Saying that it "just dies" is utterly useless if you want
any help. Please provide at the very least the output of

mplayer -v dvd://1

(substitute the correct title number for 1)

Regards,
R.

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