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Re: [gNewSense-users] problem playing DVD's


From: Ted Smith
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] problem playing DVD's
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:07:17 -0500

No, "ripping" usually means copying the music off of the CD to files on
your computer. 

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 12:02 +1800, Bubba cakes wrote:
> Is "ripping a CD" the same as burning music onto a CD?
> 
> I rent DVD's sometimes, but usually I check them out from my local
> library in Ausable Forks, NY.  Or a friend will lend me DVDs.
> 
> I couldn't find VLC Media Player.  I went to Add/Remove Programs and
> did a search.  Then I went to the SPM (Synaptic Package Manager) and
> did a search.  And finally I went to the gNS website and did a search.
> The thing doesn't exist.  But I downloaded Kaffeine, and the
> ffsomethings plugins, and another plugin that showed in a search, and
> the dvd started playing, so I have totem and kaffeine, and both play
> Road Trip.  We'll see if it still works when i return home on Sunday
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>         On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 23:20 +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
>         > > However, I think buying CD's would be safe, as they're
>         pretty easy to
>         > > rip, and no rootkit could run on GNU/Linux. Are CD's
>         encrypted in the
>         > > same sense that DVD's are?
>         >
>         > Rootkits certainly can run on a GNU system.
>         >
>         >
>         
>         Correct. What I meant was, no rootkit (distributed by Sony and
>         probably
>         for Windows) could install from ripping a CD. Unless you were
>         ripping
>         the CD as root for some reason.
>         
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