playing a dvd movie

[paulfrottawa]

Hello
I'm hoping to play a DVD movie on FreeBSD. I have one computer with an internal DVD drive. Second computer with a external DVD player connected by USB. The internal did play a disclaimer but wouldn't go further and now it won't do that anymore.
Please if you can watch DVD movies can you post your success?

 

[bsduck]

To decrypt most commercial DVDs you need multimedia/libdvdcss (not available as a package, for licensing reasons).

 

[diizzy]

If you want to avoid having the optical drive spinning all the time during playback you can use something like multimedia/dvdread in ports tree to rip the disc without converting it.

 

[itdm5j21]

Hi, I can watch a DVD movie - just one! As all my other DVDs are region 2 (Europe/UK). Is this the same issue you have paulfrottawa? I'm wondering if multimedia/libdvdcss is my issue also? Is there a way to have my DVD device play region two or open region please anyone? I've just looked at libdvdcss and it says region doesn't need to be set.. though I can't seem to 'pkg install'. Being a noob to FreeBSD I haven't got round to doing a port yet.

 

[Alexander88207]

You need to compile multimedia/libdvdcss from ports because its not allowed to be redistributed as the CSS code may violate the DMCA.

 

[itdm5j21]

You need to compile multimedia/libdvdcss from ports because its not allowed to be redistributed as the CSS code may violate the DMCA.

I'll need to get around to compile/PORT then. On my list of things to learn. Thank you.