Watching movie DVDs/libdvdcss

[winbsdman]

Hi,

I am trying to watch movie dvd's with FreeBSD 7.1 Release. I keep getting the "could not read from resource" error message. I tried to then install libdvdcss from the ports package which was successful and shows up under pkg_info. However I still get the same error message afterwards. What else do I need to do to get it working? I can play an unencrypted disc but I get no sound through it. I can play audio cd's through cd player in gnome though.


Thanks.

 

[phoenix]

Which video player are you using?

 

[octix]

I could get it working only with xine but before that iI had to make a soft link:
ln -s /dev/cd0 /dev/dvd

and only after that xine could play DVD...

PS: couldn't get it working with mplayer, don't know why...

 

[SirDice]

ln -s /dev/cd0 /dev/dvd

Add the following to /etc/devfs.conf:

link cd0 dvd

You may also need:

perm cd* 0660
perm pass* 0660
perm xpt0 0660

 

[octix]

Didn't know that. Thanks!

 

[Warlizard]

Which video player are you using?

I am using https://www.reddit.com/r/StreamingSource/ to watch movies.