Re: dvd & tv-out problem with X

[Kristian Niemi <rance@mbnet.fi>]

Right ... Just installed kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686, and for some 
mysterious reason, the DVD:s just got several minutes longer.

The previous kernel I used, 2.6.3, I had compiled myself. Obviously I 
did something wrong. :) Does anyone have any pointers as to where it 
went wrong? How was it possible that I could watch the better part of 
the DVD:s, and that they just `ended' before they should, /because of a 
kernel-setting/?


h: Kristian

> Question II:
>
> This is a more trivial problem. I'm trying to play DVD's with my Samsung 
> CD-RW/DVD -combo drive. Older DVD:s that I have work fine. Newer, 
> however,  all seem to `miss an ending' -- they just end abruptly, no 
> credits, no nothing. Mplayer / xine just kind of state that `end of 
> file', no more data.
>
> At first I thought it was faulty DVD:s, but now after I've tried *six 
> different ones*, all showing the same `symptoms', I'm starting to doubt 
> that something else might be going on ... Anyone else experiencing 
> something similar?
>
> Have they started making DVD:s in some new way, creating DVD:s 
> incompatible with my drive? (Samsung CD-RW/DVD-ROM SN-308B) Have I 
> missed some mysterious settings? (Again, /has/ worked fine until now, 
> never noticed any problems --- and still works fine with my /older/ DVD:s.)
>
> Any ideas whatsoever?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Kristian