On 5/12/05, Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Xiaotian Sun wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I never had this problem before. But yesterday when I was watching a > > DVD on my FC3 box using xine 0.99.3, suddenly in the middle of > > playback, the whole computer froze: no response to keyboard, mouse, or > > remote log in. I had to do a hard reset. > > > > Then I switch mplayer, it was fine for like 10 minutes, then the > > computer froze again. > > > > I couldn't figure out what went wrong. There's nothing obviously > > wrong in the log. > > > > Another question, what is the difference between libdvdcss and > > libdvdcss2? I have libdvdcss-1.2.8 installed. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Xiaotian > > > > Have you ever played that particular DVD title on your computer before? > Some studio-pressed DVD titles display erratic and unpredictable > behavior when you play them with one or more DVD playing applications. > That's why I install several on my machine. I've had titles play in > accelerated mode, and I've had other titles refuse to play at all, even > though the disks mounted. > No, I had never played this particular title before. It was rented from Netflix. So this is supposed to be a "normal" behavior with mplayer or xine when playing certain DVDs? I can understand they may not be able to playback certain DVDs, but freezing up the whole computer is just too much of a risk I don't want to take. > And while I'm on the subject: I have /never/ been able to play any DVD > title that I created using the "DVD Builder" application from Roxio. I > always get an error message questioning my rights to the title. > > Temlakos > Xiaotian
