[MPlayer-users] some DVDs play and others don't

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 23 July 2006 at 05:55, larrystotler at netscape.net wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RC <rcooley at spamcop.net>
> 
> >MPlayer is a monolitic app.  The program and it's codecs are compiled
> >together, in one go, into one big file.  I'm mostly interested in 
> having
> >you compile-in libmpdvdkit2 (default), instead of using external
> >libdvdread+libdvdcss.
> 
> 
> The problem with that is that it doesn't allow Kaffine or Xine to play 
> DVDs while installing the libdvdcss allows all of the players to play 
> them.

There's no problem. Compiling MPlayer without the support for external
libdvdcss doesn't affect any other player's ability to play DVDs.
MPlayer has libmpdvdkit2 included in its source tree.

Regards,
R.

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