Kaffeine is still often borked in Hardy LTS 32,
I made a post a while back about this, and many users need libdvdcss2 to play anything due to the insidious and pervasive Hollywood patents for designated areas as all this is seemingly unfixable by normal means.
However Hardy's version of Kaffeine is lazy, and no longer gives a dialog for codecs, a necessary thing it seems, as is the case in Gutsy for instance, and no problem there.
It now refuses to read unless you play DVD's as root first, despite enabling user permissions etc,. all very flakey.
Mint seems to have fixed this fundamental glitch, of which KDE 3.5.9 has several in Hardy.
Unfortunately many of the developers seem to have been distracted by KDE4 which I personally dislike so far, and forgotten basic configurations in 3.5.9.
I only hope KDE4 will allow a classic view as well as the not so tranparent vistoid widgety view.
I made a post a while back about this, and many users need libdvdcss2 to play anything due to the insidious and pervasive Hollywood patents for designated areas as all this is seemingly unfixable by normal means.
However Hardy's version of Kaffeine is lazy, and no longer gives a dialog for codecs, a necessary thing it seems, as is the case in Gutsy for instance, and no problem there.
It now refuses to read unless you play DVD's as root first, despite enabling user permissions etc,. all very flakey.
Mint seems to have fixed this fundamental glitch, of which KDE 3.5.9 has several in Hardy.
Unfortunately many of the developers seem to have been distracted by KDE4 which I personally dislike so far, and forgotten basic configurations in 3.5.9.
I only hope KDE4 will allow a classic view as well as the not so tranparent vistoid widgety view.
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