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danielgtaylor / arista

Arista Transcoder
http://www.transcoder.org/
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Adding auto-support for DVD decryption #139

Open GraemeHarrisonzz opened 12 years ago

GraemeHarrisonzz commented 12 years ago

I note that former 'closed issue' (#91) reported the issue of when Arista shows error 'No Valid DVD Title Found'. But if you have an encrypted DVD using the common 'Content Scrambling System' (CSS), you need the IT skills to go to Github, search on 'Issues' using keyword 'CSS' to discover that you need to run Terminal and type: sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh Really, Arista is fantastic software and geared for the 'average user' who has no hope of finding and following above instructions. What would be best is for the software to just execute that line itself, if it encounters a CSS DVD... Or if there is any issue re doing so automatically, just prompt the user first if they would like that to be done, then do it. The third, least attractive option is to report this required further step in the error window, so that a user can do it entirely themselves, without having to search out what is needed for that error. Please Daniel, it is excellent code, but you need this one additional simplification.

freechelmi commented 12 years ago

This has been discussed on launchpad for implementing on Totem DVD player.

The devs just refuse to automatically trigger the CSS lib install, even to point the point to an help page ....

danielgtaylor commented 12 years ago

I'm open to a prompt to run the installation script. We just need to make sure the user initiates the installation because of the legal ramifications involved in some countries with installing encryption cracking software. I'm all for making it easier for the end-user to use DVDs on their computer.