RANT: DVD playback is rough

[Arthur Pemberton]

After several attempts with a combination of mplayer, xine, totem and
ogle I can't play a DVD that is legally in my possesion. I can however
play any DVD rip that I can get my hands on. I _could_ reboot down to
Windows. But I just don't see why. To the powers that be, please put a
Window's only sticker on DVDs if that is only where it is meant to be
used.

I can't find fault in the hackers who made the first few seconds of
the disks introduction play. Peace be with them.

Sorry, just kinda upset about spending an hour trying to make a DVD disk play.

For the curious, these are the errors I got with Ogle (those from xine
were similiar, but more numerous)

*** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:926
    for vts_ptt_srpt->zero_1 = 0x2400

*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:928 ***
*** for vts_ptt_srpt->nr_of_srpts < 100 ***

FATAL[ogle_nav]: ifoRead_VTS_PTT_SRPT failed
ERROR[ogle_ctrl]: ogle_sysv_shmrm: Invalid argument

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