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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:39:10 -0400
From:      "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com>
To:        "Joachim Rosenfeld" <joerosenfeld@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vlc not decoding certain DVDs
Message-ID:  <28283d910810281339i76a48c23r81498dc8529848c1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Joachim Rosenfeld
<joerosenfeld@gmail.com>wrote:

> Why is vlc (the CSS library specifically) unable to decode certain
> CDs? Certain foreign film CDs work fine, but others, mostly US-based
> Hollywood films don't. I was under the impression that vlc was able to
> decode everything? I can hear audio on these DVDs, but the video is
> weird blocks of color.
>
> The weird thing is that if I run vlc under WINE, everything works
> fine. The movie plays, but fullscreen doesn't work and the interface
> is really horrible on vlc/wine.
>
> Any solutions on how to fix this?
>
> I am running 7.0-RELEASE on an x86 box.
>
> All ports are up to date as of 3 days ago.
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umm VLC hasn't been able to decode everything for quite a long time install
libdvdcss



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