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