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. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998