how to get libdvdcss and w32codecs through apt

[Andrew Hunter]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 21:03, Timothy Webster wrote:
> I find ubuntu planet is a good source of this sort of triva. I seen this a
> couple days ago. There is others, but this works for me.
>
> deb http://mirror2.ubuntulinux.nl/ edgy-seveas all
> deb-src http://mirror2.ubuntulinux.nl/ edgy-seveas all
>
> -tim
>

Just to make a note, those are 3rd party repos (even though they are 
maintained by a Ubuntu developer), and as such are not  supported except by 
the maintainer. 

> Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> wrote: Etienne Goyer wrote:
> > I found out that installing gstreamer-plugins-bad and
> > gstreamer-plugins-ugly was all I needed to be able to read/play most
> > media on the intarweb.  Also, VLC is a media player that read pretty
> > much everything.
>
>    VLC is the player I use.  I bought my first DVD's back in 2001 in
> order to respond to that round of the Copyright consultation
> http://www.flora.ca/copyright-2001-cmpda-reply.shtml .  I only own 2 CSS
> encoded DVD's, but my wife and I have borrowed DVD's from the Ottawa
> Public Library and watched them using VLC many times.
>
> Copyright joke:  The above document is available on Industry Canada's
> Strategis.  It documents how to download VLC and some other software in
> order to circumvent the "DRM" on DVD movies.  If Canada passes a DMCA
> like law, and the courts interpret the law the same way the USA has,
> Strategis will be breaking the law the same way that 2600 Magazine did.
>   http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/
>
>    It is fun Hacking the Government :-)
>
> --
>   Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant:
>   Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property
>   rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition!
>   http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/
>
>   "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
>    manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
>    portable media player from my cold dead hands!"

-- 
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