FC5 Totem and DVD

[Stephen Mirowski]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 06 April 2006 21:06, Guy Fraser wrote:
>   
>> I actually have an officially released unencrypted DVD at home. I first
>> tried to play it on a Windows machine with a DXR2 DVD kit, but it
>> wouldn't play, 
>>     
>
> Yes, I have one or two, but not many.
>
>   
>> I thought it was defective so I returned it and got 
>> another one. After it wouldn't play, I figured there must be more to
>> it, so I took the DVD to FutureShop and tried it in some standalone
>> DVD players. The only ones that would play it were made by Toshiba, so
>> I bought one. I would hope that most DVD players would play it now,
>> I bought a portable DVD/Navigation system and it will play data DVD's
>> with vidX, DivX and MP3's, regular DVD's and audio CD's it even has a
>> built in FM transmitter so I can listen to it over the stereo in my
>> truck, when I am not using it for navigation.
>>     
>
> Oddly enough, my Toshiba was the one that gave me difficulties.  I bought the 
> Lite-On 18 months ago, and it plays pretty much everything, but then it runs 
> xine ;-)  The interface is so recognisable
>
> Anne
>   
Getting firmware updates for drives can relieve a lot of problems.  Some 
companies don't
seem to make them.  Plextor seems to have too many firmware upgrades =P

Not movie related, but my laptop read the 1x, 2x DVD-Rs just fine, but I 
bought 4x DVD+RW
and they wouldn't read.  The 4x had a new "standard" or some thing, but 
new firmware was avail
and it read just fine. 

Stephen