Playing a DVD

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:29:43 +1000
> Jean Hollis Weber <jean-ooo at taming-openoffice-org.com> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> Earlier, on Daniel's advice (which included the same dislaimer as 
>> you mentioned), I installed libdvdcss2 -- is this one you have 
>> suggested different/more recent?
> 
> I doubt that the differences are significant - I believe it's a very
> simple/small snippet of code :) Whatever Daniel suggested will no doubt do
> the job.

Unfortunately, it didn't do the job.

For my next test, I borrowed a DVD that does not have any 
protection / security / whatever on it and tried to play that. 
Totem plays the sound fine... it doesn't loop (easy to tell on 
this DVD because it has dialog, not just music), but no visual at 
all... black screen.

I then tried it with VLC and Mplayer; in both cases I got sound 
but no visuals.

So maybe there is some problem with the hardware? It works fine 
under Windows. :-(  It's a CD read/write, DVD read drive; music 
CDs seem to work fine, but obviously that's just sound!

Good thing playing DVDs isn't high on my priority list.... :-)

Cheers, Jean