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by cybersekkin

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Okay in my quest to be Windows free I have two remaining issues one is the mail client with exchange connectivity (Evolution looks to fix this) The other is a good DVD player I have looked around but cant find a good player for linux that I can use to watch my movies Find me a good DVD program for Linux and I will be eternally in your debt.

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by o/siris

Playing DVD's in Linux is complicated. It seems the movie industry wanted some form of copyright protection included on DVD's before they would adopt the technology. So someone came up with a standard called CSS to do just that. Problem is, no one bothered to license that technology to any company that would produce a DVD Player for Linux.

To complicate it even more, it doesn't seem to affect every DVD on the market. I haven't kept a close eye on this issue for a while, but I know that Ifound several on TUCOWS. One that I've seen several Linux advocates talk about is LiViD:

http://revealed.linux.tucows.com/mmedia/preview/166160.html

I've been testing Linux on a laptop myself. If I ever get teh DVD player for the laptop, I'll give it a shot and let you know.

HTH

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