Compiling Xine?

[Romeyn Prescott]

Somewhen around 9:20 AM -0400 5/24/02, a person believing themself to 
be IMAP Test Account scribbled:
>ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd should do it.
>

Yes, I figured that out literally 10 seconds after I hit "send". ;-)

Now I have to ask... HOW do I get around all the "legal" 
mumbo-jumbo?!  All pages Xine smack of "we'd tell you more, but our 
lawyers have advised against it".  At least, that's what I see when I 
read between the lines.  I GET that DVDs are encrypted/encoded.  Xine 
"out-of-the-box" doesn't decode them.

Will someone share with me HOW to get Xine to actually PLAY DVDs? 
I'll keep reading, but no one seems to be able to legally post a 
recipe for this.  I get the feeling that I need to find all the 
ingredients myself, but I don't know what I'm really looking for.

Thanks,
...ROMeyn

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