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
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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


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