Report back: Buying a Sony drive for $37 (after tax) fixed it. Sometimes hitting something with a blunt instrument is the best way.
On Fri, March 30, 2007 10:54 am, David Brodbeck wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> My only other meaningful experiment was to put a known-good DVD movie in >> the tray and select Play DVD in the menu. This led to a clearing of the >> screen as if xine had loaded full screen, and then ... nothing. > > When I had this problem, I ran mythfrontend from an xterm command prompt > to troubleshoot it. It dumps a fair amount of information to stdout, > and you might see something in there that's helpful. > > You might also try changing the DVD player to "Internal" (I think the > default is mplayer) to see if that makes any difference. I really like > the internal player. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
