[mythtv-users] Many new dvd's not working

[David Whyte]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> But those of us in the USA should probably be careful. I know there have been attempts to get a licensed DVD player for
> Linux, they somehow seem to have disappeared, I'm not sure why, probably because Linux users are, as everyone knows, a
> "bunch of pirates" because they refuse to pay for Windows, so they are obviously dangerous radical characters.
>


Don't Dell's Ubuntu machines come with DVD playing software (as in a
proprietary and licensed copy).  It may be interesting to know if such
software has the same problems.  Could the decrypting libraries in it
be used in an player such as mythTV?