The license agreement is most likely for a program called Interactual Player, think of it as a skin over top of your DVD Decoder software (Power DVD, WinDVD, etc) and way for companies to provide interactive content easily. Interactual Player is not a DVD Player, even though you can watch DVDs with it. It needs a decoder to work, in windows the decoders cost $$. Some of the interactive content on DVDs will not be accessible on some DVDs unless you use Interactual Player which only runs on Windows as far as I know. However, the DVD itself is viewable in any player. As for software to play DVDs in Linux, you can try Ogle, MPlayer and a few others I can't think of right now. Go to www.freshmeat.net and do a search for dvd. InterVideo, most famous for WinDVD, is in the process of making a Linux DVD player for embedded systems and I believe also for PCs (http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/LinDVD.jsp). That software will be commercial and isn't released to the public yet. The only other way to play DVDs in Linux is through the OSS DVD Decoders and the software I mentioned above. There are lots of court battles going on in the States as to if that software is legal, although there was a big win for OSS advocates in the courts recently. We haven't won the war yet. I would recommend doing like you said, read the license agreement and understand what it sais. Do research on the state of OSS DVD Decoders and keep up on it. A lot of people don't realize that the Governments in both Canada and the US are fighting over and considering potential laws that would impose their will over our freedom of fair use. In other words, punishing the innocent in an attempt to punish the guilty and pad Hollywood's pockets.
-- Trevor Lauder Web: http://www.thelauders.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Walters said: > 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
