On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:00, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Hiya, > > I've just installed Gentoo 1.4rc2 and upgraded everything, including > kde-3.1. > > I'm trying to get my DVD player to work in Linux, but don't know how to > go about it. > > I've done 'emerge xine-ui'. it all installed fine and I can play dvds > without (i think) encryption, but when it comes to disks with > encryption, it doesn't play (says something about an i/o error). > > The problem i've got is that the firmware on the drive and been > 'cracked' so that it'll play any region - it's regionless. In windows, i > need to use DVD Region Encoder to get it to work (it simulated the > region needed for the disk). > > Anyone got any idea how i can get around this. I've got both region 1 > and region 2 dvds. btw, it's a pioneer 116 (i think again :).
i don't think that's the problem.... try mplayer..... "emerge mplayer " and then from command line "mplayer -dvd 1"... and tell me/us if it works or not.. gabor -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
