Hi folks, I have made a bit of progress on getting my DVD burner to work. Using Totem with the gstreamer backend, I can now *sort of* watch a DVD movie. The sound and images both decode, but they decode so slowly that they are unwatchable. Totem prints the following message when run from the command line: No accelerated IMDCT transform found Can this account for the slow playback, and if so, how do I get accelerated IMDCT transformations? I still can't play DVD movies in either Xine or mplayer, and neither player even makes the drive light up when I invoke it. Mplayer give the following messages: Playing dvd://. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access Reading disc structure, please wait... libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO. Can't open VMG info! And Xine is still giving the two errors I mentioned before. Namely: The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g: not disc in drive). (/dev/dvd) and There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/'. Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist. My system is a 1gig Celeron, with a 16 meg Nvidia card using the Nvidia proprietary drivers. So I'm pretty sure the slowness problem has to do with the software, and not the hardware/drivers. Thanks, Ian