Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Hi there,
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.
Good grief, replying to myself again! :-)
If you have trouble playing Windows Media Video 8 or 9 files, and Quicktime movies (quicktime especially) you will need to install this following package...
w32codec-0.5.2-1.i386.rpm (another binary only rpm)
...which can be downloaded from here...
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand.
