linux and dvds

[polotek147]

I want to know what software is avaiable for download to use with my dvd-rom drive?

 

[anton]

There are almost no software to watch DVD on linux, because for now it's illegal to watch DVDs on linux ; ( ... you can find some projects , but most of them on play not protected dvds ; (

 

[PG]

Some people have it working, but I haven't tried yet.

Check out this screenshot.

 

[najar]

Well, if you are willing to pay there are a few companies that have dvd playback software for GNU/Linux. CyberLink's PowerDVD-Linux is probably the one that comes to mind. This company also make the best DVD playback software for the win32 platform--PowerDVD.

 

[BOFH]

There is support for some dvd decoder cards.

check here for dxr2 cards
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~lucien/computing/projects/dxr2.html

There are software decoders, but thanks to politicians being bought and paid for to protect the movie industries buisness model they'll in a unknown legal state right now. the cases are going through court right now, but its not pretty.

I've heard good thing about xine for software decoding. check here for xine

http://xine.sourceforge.net/