The last time I tried doing DVD with LiVid, it couldnt do encrypted DVD's (copyright blah blah blah...). Which DVD did you watch and was it encrypted? Jay On Monday 01 October 2001 10:37 am, you wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Doug wrote: > > hahahaha that's great! I bought a creative dvd drive about 4 months ago > > and had it blue screen a win2k box so bad it required a reinstall (yes it > > hosed everything somehow). I got it working after playing with winme for > > about an hour and it works good, although I've been wanting to try it on > > linux but I didn't want to somehow royally screw that box up in the > > process. What drive and distro are you using? And how smooth is the > > video? > > I'm using a Afree DVD drive (super generic) and a hacked up version of > Redhat 6.2. X3.3.6, kernel 2.4.4. The video is super choppy because > A) my crappy video card and B) my crappy CPU. It may just be that I'm the > exception not the rule on this (I have a lot of weird hacked libraries on > my system, your results may vary). One thing that excited me is that the > HOWTO is VERY short considering the "supposed complexity" of DVD and yet > it's damn near idiot proof to get it working. > > -Brian > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- You will be misunderstood by everyone.