On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Ronald Chan wrote: > anyone from you guy's know why is it a DVD rom can't > read a dvd disk while an > ordinary CD it's fine
If you are saying that the DVD drive attached to your PC can play certain DVD roms but not other DVD roms, then it could be that the DVD rom is not the proper "region" for your drive. Region encoding is an artificial restriction enforced by the video industry to prevent piracy. Personally I do not like this artificial restriction, but it exists. For more info about region codes, please see the following URL: http://www.psreporter.com/dvd_region_codes.html Fortunately, Linux DVD players can now use libraries that treat the DVD player as a block device without having to bother about decrypting the region encoding. One such library is the libdvdcss: http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/ which can now be used with popular multimedia players like xine: http://xine.sourceforge.net/ Xine can use the xine-dvdnav plugin, which makes xine a very nice DVD player: http://dvd.sourceforge.net/xine-dvdnav.shtml The dvdnav plugin uses the dvdread library: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.3.tar.gz which in turn can use the libdvdcss library mentioned above. You will notice that I gave you all the URLs because the idea is, if you can't get the proper xine DVD player as an rpm from RedHat 8.0, you can always build your own from the original source codes. And when you succeed, you can always report to this list what you did, and help those of us with the same problems. PMana _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
