Ken Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 01:44 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:41 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
On 16/10/05, Ken Schneider
wrote: <snip>
Guys, I'm sorry but I keep hearing this myth bandied about left, right and centre. MS Windows 'will' play DVD's out of the box with no extra software.
I should've mentioned this, too. Yes, NT 5.1 (a.k.a. XP) does - out of the box - allow for DVD playback. You may get a bluescreen but you get DVD playback.
And you can play unencrypted DVD's out of the box with linux as well.
Which is BS. If you could I wouldn't be asking the question.
Cheers.
But I have watched -unencrypted- DVD's out of the box. They are a few years old probably with an older format, without dvdcss encryption.
I have a DVD which I tried to play after installing SuSE 10 which I know is not encrypted and SuSE failed to play it using the thing called kaffeine. After your message I tried to play it again just to make sure I wasn't wrong and SuSE/kaffeine cannot play it. The DVD is The Missionary with Michael Palin and Maggie Smith (1982). Cheers. -- Don't argue with an idiot, people may not see the difference.