Tuesday, 28 November 2006

DVD movies won't run ("encrypted")

I couldn't run a regular movie DVD in my drive. Apparently it's because they are "encrypted". I was using Kaffiene media player. Here's what I did to fix it.
  • Run Adept (Package Manager)
  • Enable Universe AND Multiverse repositories in your list
  • Do a search and install of a package named libdvdread
  • Then, search and install package libdvdcss
  • Run Kaffeine and enjoy your DVDs
If your unsure how to do all this. You should probably start by reading this:
followed by this:
Then this:

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