Playing DVD freezes the computer

[Marcel Janssen]

On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:14, Temlakos wrote:
> Have you ever played that particular DVD title on your computer before?
> Some studio-pressed DVD titles display erratic and unpredictable
> behavior when you play them with one or more DVD playing applications.
> That's why I install several on my machine. I've had titles play in
> accelerated mode, and I've had other titles refuse to play at all, even
> though the disks mounted.

 I've tested hundreds of DVD's and they all play fine (using xine).
DVD's should not be mounted to play them. I won't deny there are funny titles 
around, but those I've never seen yet and I do play a lot of DVD.

Anyway, if a PC crashes when playing DVD it is most likely due to a bad xorg 
driver. An application like mplayer or xine shouldn't be able to crash Linux, 
unless it's using a bad driver. 
Perhaps try a different output mode (xine -V xshm, this is rather slow but 
should always work well).

> And while I'm on the subject: I have /never/ been able to play any DVD
> title that I created using the "DVD Builder" application from Roxio. I
> always get an error message questioning my rights to the title.

Perhaps wrong mastering software. I've created DVD's in Linux using dvdauthor 
and they all play fine so far (not only on Linux). Perhaps you set some 
strange encryption mode in Roxio ?

Regards,
Marcel