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bilbrey
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 Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: Star Wars DVD Trilogy, RCE, Linux and you… |
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The Star Wars Trilogy on DVD appears to have RCE (Region Coding Enhanced) “features” on the disks. What this means is a number of things. First off, it won’t play on region-unlocked or auto-region players. Second, and more importantly from my perspective, I can’t play it with Xine under Linux. So if you want to watch the Star Wars Trilogy on your Linux box, don’t waste your money supporting the creator of Jar Jar Binks in his complicity with the movie industry’s war on their customers. I’m not telling you to wait for the BitTorrent downloads. Oh, no, that would be illegal. You’ll have to tell yourself something like that. And do keep an eye out for discs marked RCE - don’t support this practice.
Oh, and thank your congresscritter for using his precious votes to support laws that keep people from using their rightfully owned products.
WHY DO I BUY MOVIES THAT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO WATCH???
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTARDS!!!
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brianlane
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Vote with your money I guess. I wasn't going to get it anyway -- its the mangled version with the crappy Jabba scene pasted into Star Wars. George isn't getting any more of my $$ for this franchise after the chop job he did on the original 3.
(and yes, I did go see the mangled Star Wars in the theater. It sucked. Han's elbow goes right through Jabba's neck, the enhanced sound was awesome, but make the rest of the film sound flat where they hadn't tweaked it. The extra Tattoine effects just weren't needed.)
Give me the original and I'll buy it -- but only if I can play it on Linux, either with Xine or a bundled player if they want to do it that way.
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bilbrey
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject: An answer... |
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It turns out the discs are perfectly playable, it's just the lead-in code that borks things. Jumping straight into the disc works fine:
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bilbrey@goldfinger ~ $ xine dvd://1.1
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.2.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
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Runs like a champ. Title 1, Chapter1 is generally the start of the main feature. I was also able to jump into the menu direct (once I found out which Title it was) from the command line, again bypassing the lead-in. Oops, I guess I don't get to see the FBI warning, either.
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