[ltp] DVD playback

[Charles E Taylor IV]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:22:08 +0100
TSchutzerWeissmann at uk.imshealth.com wrote:

> yes, I do hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc before I try. Also the video driver is
> xshm(using XV gives me green goo).
 
> DVD seems to be one of those things. I would use windows but I'm a bit
> stuck because I wrote over my recovery partition and while I've restored
> the contents I can't get it to boot. 

Which distribution are you using and what video chipset?  DVD playback
will be slow as molasses unless you can get Xv working, and I had a
problem with the Trident 9397DVD chipset in my 770Z and the XFree86 that
came with Redhat 8.0 - where Redhat 9 and 7.3 worked fine.

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