Thanks for the urpmi pointers, people, but if you read my "Including kernel headers..." thread you will see that I don't yet have a functional modem on the laptop in question. Once I do, then I assume that urpmi will be great. In the meantime I download stuff at work (my Linux installation is kindly sponsored by Tait, unbeknown to them), and cart it home on a USB flash drive. This reminds me that I must take up an offer that I received of a PCMCIA modem in the meantime.

Donning my fire-proof suit - In what way is mplayer superior to Totem?

Here was the result of running Totem from the command-line, revealing, for all to see, my impeccable taste in films:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] douglas]$ totem
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc0a from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdnav: DVD Title: 4WED_FUNERAL
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 2a9b54ca
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/douglas/.dvdnav/4WED_FUNERAL.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f50000. Regions: 2 4
libspudec:init_plugin called
The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
 (Details: serial 53 error_code 11 request_code 141 minor_code 19)
 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
  that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
  To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
  option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
  backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

** ERROR **: Must shutdown ORB from main thread
aborting...
Killed

Just out of curiosity, I took a look at the DVD from the command line:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] douglas]$ cd /mnt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]$ ls
cdrom/  floppy/  removable/  win_d/  win_e/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]$ cd cdrom/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]$ ls
AUDIO_TS/  VIDEO_TS/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]$ ls VIDEO_TS/
VIDEO_TS.BUP  VTS_01_0.BUP  VTS_01_1.VOB  VTS_01_4.VOB  VTS_02_0.IFO
VIDEO_TS.IFO  VTS_01_0.IFO  VTS_01_2.VOB  VTS_01_5.VOB  VTS_02_0.VOB
VIDEO_TS.VOB  VTS_01_0.VOB  VTS_01_3.VOB  VTS_02_0.BUP  VTS_02_1.VOB

So there's no problem talking to the drive, anyway.

So what's a .dvdnav/*.map? Is this something to do with encryption?




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