On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 19:25 +0100, robertj35@tiscali.co.uk wrote:

Hi it's Robert here, i was just wondering how i could get dvd playback on Kaffeine

Kaffeine is just an alternative front end for the xine project..Do a google search for your distro + xine DVD as the method to get the relevant libs to play encrypted DVD's varies wildly between distros because of the legal issues surrounding dvd-css

With ubuntu is was a matter of following a Ubuntu Wiki page called "Restricted Media" and adding a couple of repositories to get the additional packages.

and whether it's possible to be able to play my Xbox without the need to have a tv card(or tv license).Yours Robert

One of those USB2 or Firewire Capture interfaces would do it (you also used to be able to buy PCI video capture cards sans TV tuner) but I am not sure about the quality you would get....Alternatively there are a few LCD panels on the market that have a composite input.

Or at least one product I have seen that will convert Composite to VGA so you can use a spare VGA input or Monitor.

1. The way I got around this at the office when we had a GameCube in the kitchen, was to use an old Commodore Colour monitor (that I carefully resprayed black and added Nintendo badges to) Again like you I wanted to avoid buying a TV license just to use a games console.