[plug] Getting DVD's to run (with video)

[Grahame Bowland]

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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:46 pm, David & Lisa Buddrige wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have recently purchased a laptop (an ITC Centris) that has a DVD player.
> It has a 1 Ghz Celeron processor and 256MB RAM, along with a 20GB
> hard-drive.
>
> I have installed ogle and xine along with libdvdcss in order to watch dvd
> movies with it.
>
> I have got to the point where I am getting sound from the dvd, but the
> video display is simply a blank blue window.  I am guessing that if this
> was a problem with the encryption then I wouldn't be getting sound.  Has
> anyone had this problem trying to play DVD movies?

AFAIK the sound is not (generally) encrypted so it may still be the 
encryption. Does it say anything if you run it from a terminal? Mine usually 
says something like "CSS Auth Successful" followed by lots of stuff in hex..

Cheers,
Grahame

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Grahame Bowland - <grahame at azale.net>
'All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors'
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