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[guest]

Totally bemused now

I rip the DVD to the hard disk, removing all menus, encryption and region coding. It works in all the media players.

I write it to a DVD - still no menus, encryption or region coding. It plays video in Totem but no sound. It doesn't play at all in other media players.

I think I'll give the KDE version a try. I can't see why it'd be any different but I have another hard drive I could use anyway.

[roseway]

KDE has Kaffeine and Amarok, which seem to cover most multimedia needs. I can't explain your results, but it will be interesting to see if the KDE programs work any differently.

[guest]

I'm going to try it in about half an hour. I'm fairly convinced its something to do with the drive's region setting being incorrectly reported as region 1 but I have no idea how to "fix" it. I'll report back later.....

Edit - much later as something has come up. Doesn't it always

[guest]

Just installed the KDE version - updating now. The very first thing I noticed was that the sound was RADICALLY different. This is on an old NForce2 (or maybe 3) motherboard and it has 6 channel sound although I'm only using 2 channels right now. In the Gnome edition there was no way of getting any mixer functions - nor even tone control. In the KDE edition we have full control. Progress - hopefully the right sort of progress

I'll switch over to the PC Linux OS 2007 thread now...........