DVD Movies.

[Alfred]

Hi Leigh Honeywell, Daniel Robitaille, Stéphane S. Somé:

It's probably not RootKits, but perhaps just that not every kind of
encryption is Covered by Libdvdcss2. There seems to be something going
on that monitors the Video, and if it is all kinds of little green
squares all over the place, then it suggests that perhaps Libdvdcss2 is
not running, or installed. However it is. I played with it some more and
found that older DVDs Played fine, but some newer ones played without
decryption, rendering everything, as a Garbled mess. Some older DVD's
played fine, but Rushhour 3 was just a garbled mess. They play for a few
seconds and then stop. It might have something to do with the little fan
on my NVidia Card, not running full Blast. Cheap Sleeve Bearings, and
not made to run horizontal and upside down. So some days it runs OK, and
others, not so good. I'll see if I can fix that, perhaps put some new
Thermal grease in it, and take apart a little Ball Bearing Fan, and
attach it to the heatsink. I bought these ones just a few weeks ago. My
NVidia 6200 had this same problem, but it was after a few years. When I
replaced the Thermal Grease, and put a new Ball Bearing Fan on it, it
worked perfect! 

It would be nice if there was some way to monitor Fan Turning. A few of
them are monitored like the CPU Fan and one of the Case Fans.

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: DVD Movies.
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:00:39 -0400

Alfred wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I have a new DVD rom- in 7.10. I set it up to play DVD Movies. It worked
> just fine for a while. Yesterday I played Live-Free or Die Hard, Twice
> to see the difference between the Theatrical Version and the Unrated
> version. Today I tried to play another movie, but now all the Movie
> Players Don't Work! Is there a utility for finding and removing
> RootKits. Sony used this once, but it may be what is going on here. I
> didn't make Copies of the DVD's I just Played them, yet Totem now
> Crashes when it goes to play the DVD. I have a DVD Player but my house
> guest sleeps in that room, and I can't always watch a rented movie using
> it. 
> 
> Any Ideas about this?
> 
> Alfred!

I've never heard of rootkits on commercially produced DVD's.  Even if
someone was stupid enough to do this (like Sony did on those audio
cd's), well, they wouldn't work on Linux.  You're barking up the wrong
tree Alfred :)

Try a different media-playing application like VLC.

-Leigh