Playing a DVD

[Jaime Davila]

Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> 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
> 
I forgot to mention one caveat with that driver, which is that I've read 
that it's slower. I've never noticed frames being dropped myself, though.

WRT encrypted dvd's: put one in, start xine, and check what output you 
get on the terminal you called xine from. libdvdcss prints dome messages 
about what it's doing. So, if nothing else, we should be able to verify 
that libdvdcss is being loaded. I don't remember anything like "I'M 
LIBDVDCSS, AND I JUST LOADED," but what it prints out will seem familiar 
to many here, including myself. Something among the lines of "now 
getting encryption keys. this might take a while" or something like 
that. Cut and paste it and lets take a look at it.


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Jaime J. Davila
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Hampshire College
School of Cognitive Science
jdavila at hampshire dot edu
http://helios.hampshire.edu/jdavila
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