[ltp] Full-screen DVD MPlayer on 600X

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 01 January 2004 16:55, after a long battle with technology, 
Antiphon wrote:
> I prefer Xine as well but can't get it to play back DVDs at all.

You need to have libdvdcss installed; otherwise Xine won't be able to 
decrypt most commercial DVDs that have been encrypted with CSS.  You 
also want the dvdnav plugin for Xine, that'll get you DVD menu support 
and such.  mplayer doesn't really have DVD menu support, so it's not 
really useful if the DVD has multiple titles.

> FWIW, here's the output of xvinfo (I'm running Debian sid with
> XFree86 4.3 from experimental):
[snip]

Yep, that looks OK.  Did you start Xine with "xine -V xv", or select the 
xv video output plugin from Xine's menus?  Do that.  Start an xterm or 
konsole and run xine from that; it'll print a bunch of diagnostic info 
to stdout and if there are problems with xv or decrypting DVDs or 
whatever, it'll let you know.  HTH,

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