Mike Branda wrote:
> DVDs have a playback structure. You somehow are stuck in the top level "menu". Normally after playing through this if shifts to the next level which is where the actual menu is. Did you try pressing the menu button to see if it would shift you?
>
Yeah. Got nothing. I brought up the menu of navigation commands, but
none of them seem to do anything, and I don't really even know what
they're supposed to do.
FWIW, this particular DVD gives you (this is from memory), a whole
little program it runs first, making you think you have a virus and
asking you to respond, before you actually get to the "Play/Scene
Selection/etc." menu. It's a little bit of humor from the film's
director, I suppose.
Paul
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
> To: slug@nks.net
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:05:42
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] playing dvd's
>
> michael hast wrote:
>
>>Hey, all.
>>
>> I'm running Debian 3.1 on kernel 2.6, and apparently, I don't know
>>how to configure a media player to play a dvd from my dvd rom. I just
>>installed mplayer, and it will not play video dvd's in it's current
>>configuration. I told it to look in /media/cdrom1, as per my file
>>manager, and it doesn't seem to see anything there. Out of sheer morbid
>>curiosity, I tried a couple of different dvd's and a couple of different
>>players--eg. XMMS, Kaffeine, Noatun, etc.--still to no avail. I'm
>>tapped out here. Do any of you have any clue what I might not be doing
>>right here? Thanks.
>>
>
>
> I wasn't gonna say anything, but what the hell....
>
> I just installed a machine which is actually capable of playing DVDs. So
> the other night, I popped in "Office Space" just to see what would
> happen. I fired up Xine and told it to go look for the DVD. I hit play,
> and it played the FBI warning, and then wouldn't play anything else. No
> menu for what was on the DVD, no nothing. Nice FBI warning, though. ;-}
> Any ideas?
>
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