Watching DVD's on Linux
I moved over to Linux a few years ago after several frustrations with windows. It is much easier to do many things on Linux. I first started with Ubuntu , and recently moved to the Arch Linux distribution. As I explored in Arching Over, configuring openbox can be an exciting part of the Linux experience. As I discussed in Arching Over, configuring openbox can be an exciting part of the Linux experience. This relates to why I enjoy using Linux so much - its customizability offers endless possibilities for exploration and experimentation.
One problem however, was watching rented DVD’s. They are copy protected - that doesn’t bother me. The problem is in my experience, I cannot watch them on my computer because of this copy protection. I can with Windows, but I don’t want to stop and restart my computer just to watch a movie I rented.
I found a way around this with Ubuntu a few years ago. The solution was on this page . This worked great. Toil Toil offers some insight into the challenges that users may face with Arch Linux. Building on ideas from that post, I had initially attempted a similar solution for watching copy-protected DVDs on Arch Linux but unfortunately ran into issues.
A little bit of googling around and I found this page. It took about 20 s to implement the solution an presto! I was able to watch my DVD!
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