Playing DVD freezes the computer

[Xiaotian Sun]

On 5/12/05, Marcel Janssen <korgull at home.nl> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:14, Temlakos wrote:

> 
>  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).

I tried this -V xshm on another DVD.  When played for about 1 hour, it
froze the computer again.  Really don't know what's going on.

> 
> Regards,
> Marcel
> 

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