Playing a DVD

[Jaime Davila]

Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

What machine are you using? This sounds like an xserver issue. Can you 
see video that doesn't come from a DVD? For example, can you watch 
videos that come from video.google.com?


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