Sorry if this has been possible posted elsewhere, I did a search and found nothing...

I have a DeskNote A929 which has the SiS 315 video chipset. The video works great on MDK 10.0 Official except for one issue... I can't seem to get DVD's to play with any player... xine, totem, and Mplayer... none of them work, but they all do something different

Totem: The red 'warning' screen plays (the one you usually see on commercial DVD's... after it plays, you would expect to see the menu, but instead you get an 'Error' box that says "Application 'totem' (process 3290) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Aborted)"

Xine: Press the 'DVD' button... again, the 'warning' screen plays... but then the program just goes away.. that's it, it just shuts down for no reason...

Mplayer: Right-click on the window, choose 'DVD', 'Open Disc', then 'Play'... DVD begins to play, shows the opening intro of the film company, image freezes, audio mutes... hard drive grinds away erratically... then the movie commences playing in very broken/skipping fashion... eventually it detiorates to an image that appears all scrambled/corrupted and the audio sounds distorted... and if you let it go longer eventually the video freezes permenantly, the audio mutes permenantly, and the hard drive grinds away erratically and never stops, effectively causing the system to lock up and the only way to recover is to hit the power button...

For those not familiar with this rig, the A929 is something of a generic laptop, mine has 512MB RAM, a 1.7+ Athlon, and it's got an SiS 315 video chipset...


Has anyone seen this and/or know of anything that could be helpful for me???

Thank You Much!
~Brandon

Well, figured out my problem... thought I'd post it here just in case someone stumbles on a similar problem... even though MDK10(Off.) came with Totem, MPlayer, and Xine pre-installed... I must have been missing some of the required lib's... I tried to install a bit newer version of MPlayer and had to install some req'd libs that apparently weren't there... after that I just tried Mplayer (the preinstalled version)...and it worked great! So did the others...

so apparently all the talk on the net about SiS 315 cards having compatibility problems wasn't part of this...

i use xine 2 view my movies and it works fine, however u do have 2 download some other stuff inorder 2 c some dvds. read that and try it, if the video still freezes then maybe its hardware problem?

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/