Re: Problems--XV and certain DVDs

Bj|rn Englund wrote:

>I don't know what the fglrx drivers are, but if you are not using
>ATI's binary X drivers, you should try them, they probably will fix Xv.
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Whoops, sorry about the confusion. The fglrx drivers are the binary ones 
you're talking about, the ones from ATI's website.

Also, I just checked my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, and found the lines

     (II) Loading extension XVideo
     (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation

Is this at all related to Xv? I really don't know very much about the 
subject...

>>Using ogle --debug, one of them gets a repeated read error, so I think
>>it might be scratched or something. Though it plays fine in a regular
>>player, and it mounts fine. The other one gives the same "Could not open
>>/dev/dvd" error without any additional useful information.  Running as
>>root, which I would assume has write access to anything that needs it,
>>gives the same error.
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>If you haven't set the region of your dvd drive, try doing so.
>That usually fixes all kinds of weird errors.
>Or flash the drive with a 'region free' firmware.
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>/Björn
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How do I set the region? I downloaded a program called regionset, and 
set the region to 1, but it didn't seem to do anything. I tried playing 
both discs, with the same results as before.

All my discs are region 1, by the way. My drive should also be region 1, 
but I'm not entirely sure. It's not listed in my manual, but I live in 
the US, and bought it from a US-based company, so I would assume so.