I don't think it's too difficult to play DVDs on Linux, but you do need to have programs that can decode the CSS encryption. On my Debian box, a dialog popped up when I installed the ogle movie player mentioning how to obtain a decoding library. I think the vlc player worked pretty much out-of-the-box, but I needed to use some obscure utility to set the region on my drive. The Debian version of xine I have doesn't know how to play DVDs, but that shouldn't be a problem if you compile from source, and there are probably some libraries that you could download to remedy the situation. I generally play movies and videos with a version of mplayer I compiled from source. The bonus with mplayer is that when you get all of the Win32 libraries from it's website, you can play almost any file out there, even streaming Windows Media, Quicktime, and Real video. Some packaged versions of mplayer are available through http://marillat.free.fr/ -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ "I'm going to KILL you." -- / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Stewie, Family Guy \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030507/90f47792/attachment.pgp