Well this is interesting. Came in this morning and Ubuntu said I had an update to run: "libdvdcss2" I ran that and now I can play commercial DVDs.
Dennis On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 14:16 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This may be an unrelated fix, but it's helped me a few times. > > Proper software decoding of DVD/CSS content may require that the DVD-ROM > be accessed via DMA (Direct Memory Access), and in most Linux distros > this is not enabled by default (not for optical drives, anyway). > Without DMA in place a lot of odd errors can occur. > > With root privileges, try running 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb', replacing > /dev/hdb with the designation of your DVD-ROM. Then try watching a > commercial DVD again. > > If this fixes it then I'll tell you how you can make the change permanent. > > Brian > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDSDct8iwHek1OcGYRAsQfAKCbe1t4pZR+5T3WuVL90pGS3j21owCfc1il > d9cdPLWgCkdDJWI0mwMJAKY= > =+Y3G > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
