Douglas Royds wrote:
Not a big success so far. I tried two different DVDs, with exactly the same result - the DVD spun up, then Totem crashed.
Running Mandrake 9.2.
I don't really know where to start on this one. Might the DVDs be encrypted? Would this cause Totem to simply crash? Totem will cheerfully play an audio CD on the same drive.
Totem uses the xine libs to decode movie content. If you do not have libdvdcss or another similar CSS descrambler installed that libxine can hook into, then 99% of commercial DVD's sold will not play on your system.
It took a while for libdvdcss to unscramble the keys to some of my DVD's, but once the key is found and stored in your home dir the next time you play that disc it will start much quicker. There are still a few discs I cannot coax into life, namely Lord Of the Rings Two Towers Extended DVD Discs 1, 3 and 4, and a couple of others sometimes suffer menu corruption, but most seem to work very well.
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand.
