On 5/12/05, Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Xiaotian Sun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I never had this problem before. But yesterday when I was watching a
> DVD on my FC3 box using xine 0.99.3, suddenly in the middle of
> playback, the whole computer froze: no response to keyboard, mouse, or
> remote log in. I had to do a hard reset.
>
> Then I switch mplayer, it was fine for like 10 minutes, then the
> computer froze again.
>
> I couldn't figure out what went wrong. There's nothing obviously
> wrong in the log.
>
> Another question, what is the difference between libdvdcss and
> libdvdcss2? I have libdvdcss-1.2.8 installed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Xiaotian
>
Have you ever played that particular DVD title on your computer before?
Some studio-pressed DVD titles display erratic and unpredictable
behavior when you play them with one or more DVD playing applications.
That's why I install several on my machine. I've had titles play in
accelerated mode, and I've had other titles refuse to play at all, even
though the disks mounted.
No, I had never played this particular title before. It was rented
from Netflix. So this is supposed to be a "normal" behavior with
mplayer or xine when playing certain DVDs? I can understand they may
not be able to playback certain DVDs, but freezing up the whole
computer is just too much of a risk I don't want to take.
And while I'm on the subject: I have /never/ been able to play
any DVD
title that I created using the "DVD Builder" application from Roxio. I
always get an error message questioning my rights to the title.
Temlakos
Xiaotian