Playing a DVD

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Jaime Davila wrote:
>> Next I turned to xine. Thanks to your instructions in a previous note, 
>> I found how to start a DVD. Result with both DVD#1 and #2: blue 
>> screen, opening music, which loops.
>>
>> Further suggestions welcome.
>>
>> --Jean
>>
> I've had a similar problem on my laptop, although only when driving a 
> vga screen from the vga output. Something having to do with the Xv 
> drivers, and such things. I solved the problem by starting xine with a 
> video driver other than Xv. i.e. start xine like this:
>    xine -V XShm

Thank you! That worked for the unencrypted DVD. We are making 
progress!

Now to get the encrypted DVDs working. Perhaps I should reinstall 
libdvdcss? Or is there something else I need to do after 
installing it?

--Jean