DVD frustration - new observation

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 12 March 2007, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 12Mar2007 09:36, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:
> | On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:08:12 +0000
> |
> | Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> | > Thinking about what you said, I realised that you may be testing with
> | > commercially burned disks
> |
> | Actually, I tested both, but the home burned disk was burned on
> | windows (sorry) not linux. Maybe the problem is with the burning
> | software? (but they why would the burned disk work OK in a stand
> | alone player?). Nope. Too confusing for me.
>
> Stand alone players are sometimes more forgiving of not-totally-to-spec
> authoring. But you should still get something with xine.
>
> Have you tried building xine from source (installing in /opt or
> /usr/local for example)?

No, I haven't.  I've never felt the need, as everything worked until recently.  
If the worst comes to the worst I could always try that.

Anne