On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 20:03 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote: > On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:14, Temlakos wrote: > > 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. > > I've tested hundreds of DVD's and they all play fine (using xine). > DVD's should not be mounted to play them. I won't deny there are funny titles > around, but those I've never seen yet and I do play a lot of DVD. > I have never had a problem with DVDs, and my DVDs *ALWAYS* mount when inserted. If not mounted the player cannot access the files to play them. > Anyway, if a PC crashes when playing DVD it is most likely due to a bad xorg > driver. An application like mplayer or xine shouldn't be able to crash Linux, > unless it's using a bad driver. > Perhaps try a different output mode (xine -V xshm, this is rather slow but > should always work well). > > > 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. > > Perhaps wrong mastering software. I've created DVD's in Linux using dvdauthor > and they all play fine so far (not only on Linux). Perhaps you set some > strange encryption mode in Roxio ? > > Regards, > Marcel >
