I can pretty well verify that it does not work with DVD-RAM.
Which is OK. I don't yet have full information on making it
work, but I will post when I do.
Most of those tools are in your 7.0 distro already (all they
could cram in without hiring another lawyer) I recommend browsing
the RPMs on the distro disks.
If you are fortunate enough to have DeCSS (pre-injunction), you
can add that and likely play movies without a decoder, but then
decoder cards are fairly inexpensive these days,
except they have the annoying "regionalization" feature --
they'll decode only DVDs
prepared specifically for your "region". This allows the folks
to sell a DVD move 6 months later at three times the price just
across the border from you. And yes, if you buy a DVD Player in
Germany, it is not likely to play American DVDs.
Civileme
Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> Does Supermount work with DVD-ROM's under Linux? I installed an Acer IDE
> DVD-ROM today and it made things go *extremely* slow until I commented out
> the /etc/fstab entry for the device. The GIMP hung and all kinds of other
> unpleasant things happened. Now I've got it so I have to manually mount
> it and it seems to be ok. Any idea why this might be?
>
> Also, how do I get to view DVD movies under Linux? I looked at the LiViD
> page and it's talking about patching the kernel for DVD fs support and
> whatnot, or else using a development kernel with it built in. Any
> suggestions on the best way to go about it? I've always been a little
> reluctant to mess with the kernel and I don't really like the idea of
> patching it. Is there a module or something I can just slap in there?
>
> Any info would be appreciated. I'd like to get this running under Linux
> so I can show off to a few Windows users... =)
>
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