Playing DVD freezes the computer

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 20:03 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> 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.
> 

I have never had a problem with DVDs, and my DVDs *ALWAYS* mount when
inserted.  If not mounted the player cannot access the files to play
them.

> 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
>