Rich Shepard wrote: > There's a cd/dvd drive in the Toshiba Satellite. Inserting a movie dvd is > easy: press the button on the drawer and it opens. After that it gets rather > screwy. > > On the Applications->Multimedia menu is something called Movie Player. > When that is invoked it opens a large window, then displays a message box > that it's missing all requisite plug-ins (!). Strange. Doesn't tell me > what's missing nor do I understand why they'd be missing in a clean > installation. > > Thinking I could get past this I used the synaptic package manager to get > and install mplayer. However, when I try to play the disk in the drive I see > messages that there's something about the disk, or too many buffers are > loaded, and the mplayer window shows a psycadelic display of colored bars in > several vertical strips from the bottom of the window up. So I kill that > process and try to remove the disk by opening the drive door. > > At this point a serious message box pops up with text that the drive is > not recogzined by HAL and must have been installed by aliens or something. > Never have seen any such reaction before. Need to resort to the straightened > paper clip to open the drive and remove the disk. > > Does anyone have any ideas why both the software and the hardware are > acting as they are?
Does the DVD have some advanced copy protection that could be interfering? Does it play on another computer? I use VLC for anything video related. I know people that swear by mplayer and that's fine, but it seems to take some extra tinkering that VLC doesn't. -- m0gely _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
