Re: DVD Playback in Gentoo?

Carl Hudkins wrote:

>On Sun July 31 2005 15:16, Mike S wrote:
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>>I have used now 3 different distributions, ubuntu, debian, and now
>>gentoo, and in all of them the same thing has happened, whenever I try
>>to play a dvd my screen gets a yellowish tint, my teminals that may be
>>open get distoted colors, (usually red) for the text in them, and it
>>won't play.  Has anyone gotten this to work?
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> What color depth are you running X in?  I recall having severe problems 
>playing any sort of video in 24-bit color, so then I changed to 16-bit and I 
>have no problems.  I do notice that when playing most videos the colors of my 
>desktop background get messed up, but I consider that a trivial problem and 
>ignore it.  (In a couple of hours the background changes, anyway.)
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> If you run "xine --verbose dvd://" in a command window, do you get any 
>helpful information about what it's doing or where it quits?
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Thank you Carl!  I checked my xorg.conf (because I don't know how to 
change but-depth in a gui) and changed my default Depth to 16 instead of 
24, and in the end, that's the only thing that worked.  Sorry it's been 
so long, but I have been busy with Slackware on my girlfriend's laptop.

--Mike S
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