Hi everyone

I am having trouble watching DVDs, and wondered if anyone could help. Basically the problem is that the DVD window (either windowed or full screen) is green, with random "flecks" across it (still, not moving), instead of showing the movie. The audio track plays fine.

System is SimplyMepis 3.3.1 kernel 2.6.10 on a 1.8Ghz Athlon PC with Gigabyte GA7-VEML motherboard. The video is the standard on-board video, rather than a card, and I am not using any video driver other than the defaults that came with MEPIS. I have tried it with KDE and Fluxbox, at resolutions of 1280x960 (my usual default) and reduced to 1024x768.

I have installed libdvdread and libdvdcss debs. I have tried xine, ogle and mplayer. Xine will not play at all (missing plugin), whereas ogle and mplayer produce the green screen described above, but with perfect sound. All three of these were bundled with MEPIS, I have not installed them myself.

Presumably I need to adjust something in my XF86 setup? Or will it simply not work without a graphics card?

I used to be able to watch DVDs (a bit choppily) on my old Pentium 500Mhz with no graphics card, so this machine should be good enough?

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks
asrisk

Further to this, I have managed to make xine work, by using "xine /mnt/cdrom1" rather than just "xine" on its own. Still green screen though.

If I boot up Knoppix (version 3.6 kernel 2.6.7) xine will play DVDs just fine. I'm not sure how to find out what is different about my MEPIS setup.

same sort of problem here but with mythtv
i see a picture but it is different shades of green... and audio

Video driver problem? Check which video driver Knoppix is using and see if it's the same one on Mepis?