Hello Kevin, I tried to turn off the autoplay setting of the DVD player by playing the DVD of Das Rheingold and looking for some settings to change and shutting off the autoplay setting if I found it. But I looked at every button on the DVD player screen and could not find an autoplay setting.
So I was thinking that if I were to play the Harry Potter DVD on my computer again, I might accept the agreement and fool around with the interactive portion of the Harry Potter DVD. But of course, I would read the agreement very carefully before accepting the terms. I am sure that the money I paid for the DVD pays for the use of the software on at least one operating system on one computer. Regards, Michael Walters On Sunday 12 January 2003 02:28 pm, you wrote: > I suspect the licensing agreement is for software, not the DVD. If you > watched the DVD in a set top DVD player, you wouldn't be cafed with the > agreement, so I don't think you need to agree at all. Agreeing or not > agreeing will not affect your ability to watch the DVD, just shut off > autoplay on the DVD drive on your PC, and you'll never see the agreement > pop up again. > > In the US, this is probably illegal, but here in Canada, I think you might > still be OK to do it. > > Take the DVD, rip it and make it into a Divx. > > Divx will play with Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. If you're not fussy, picture > and sound will be fine (Especially if you have lots of free disk space.) > > Have you ever found anything that can conviently play a DVD in Linux? I > haven't looked in a while. I heard that (I think it was) PowerDVD was > releasing something, but I never heard of an actual release. Is there one? > > Kev. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "clug talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:27 PM > Subject: (clug-talk) Harry Potter DVD > > > Hello all, > > > > I just ran a Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone DVD on my windows > > and > > > when I tried to close the program it asked to either accept or reject the > > installation after reading the licensing agreement. Since I want to view > > all > > > my DVD disks eventually in linux, I rejected the agreement. > > > > Is it a bad idea to get a DVD player working in linux and then accept the > > DVD > > > licensing agreement while playing the DVD in linux? If interactive > > software > > > in the Harry Potter DVD is incompatible with the safe running of linux if > > I > > > were to view the Harry Potter DVD in linux, then I will not accept the > > DVD licensing agreement in linux. > > > > If it would be safe to install the software that comes from the Harry > > Potter > > > DVD in linux, I will wait until I can run DVD disks in linux before > > playing > > > the Harry Potter DVD. Then I will put in the Harry Potter DVD and install > > it > > > while in linux only after upgrading my linux to mandrake 9.0 . > > > > If it is not safe to install the Harry Potter DVD software in linux, then > > I > > > would not have to wait to play the Harry Potter DVD and would install the > > appropriate proprietary software from the Harry Potter DVD for the > > interactive program in windows. If I should keep the installation of the > > proprietary interactive software in windows because it is not safe to > > install > > > in linux, then I do not have to wait for my linux upgrade, but could play > > the > > > Harry Potter DVD in windows and accept the installation into windows. > > > > So should I accept the Harry Potter licensing agreement in windows or > > should > > > I do so in an upgrade to linux? Is it dangerous to mix windows DVD > > software > > > and linux in that way? > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael Walters
