On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:56 +1000, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > ok, dvd movies are working now. > > i actually cheated. i have a small 4GB windows partition on the laptop - > for thinkpad bios and embedded controller updates. i never tried palying > the dvd on it. anyway, i did, and after some thinking it worked. i can > only assume, and since reading further into this, that the windows dvd > player silently ran the regionset for the drive. i read that there is a > linux region set utility for a dvd drive, so it could be run from there. > > anyway, happier chappy now - totem and friends work. > > Takis > > > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:33 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 17 April 2006 16:43, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > > > the drive reads and writes with no issues. audio cds are fine however > > > movie dvds are not. data dvd are ok. > > > > You may want to check if you have type udf listed for the drive > > in /etc/fstab. If you do, try removing it. > > Takis I found ages ago a problem with gstreamer and totem not reading dvds, when I tried totem-xine, worked fine. But you seemed to have fixed it now so nevermind :) Cheers -- +-----------------------------------------------------+ | | Glyn Tebbutt | | +--------------+ | Mail: d3c3it@plasticmongoose.com | | WWW: www.plasitcmongoose.com | | MSN: d3c3it@hotmail.com | | GPG: www.plasticmongoose.com/d3c3it/misc/d3c3it.asc | +-----------------------------------------------------+
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