<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >DVD Playback HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="intro.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="article" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="title" ><A NAME="AEN2" ></A >DVD Playback HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN4" >David Jao</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" ><TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:djao@dominia.org" >djao@dominia.org</A >></TT ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="pubdate" >2004-02-26<BR></P ><DIV CLASS="revhistory" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-02-26</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: DJ</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial Release, reviewed by LDP</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.9</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-02-07</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: DJ</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >submitted to LDP</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-01-26</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: DJ</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >first public release</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="abstract" ><A NAME="AEN27" ></A ><P ></P ><P > This document describes how to view DVD movies on a Linux computer with a DVD drive. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="intro.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="intro.html#copyright" >Copyright and License</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="intro.html#disclaimer" >Disclaimer</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="intro.html#feedback" >Feedback</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="prep.html" >System Preparation</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="prep.html#prereqs" >Hardware Prerequisites</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="prep.html#symlink" >Creating the /dev/dvd symlink</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="prep.html#region" >Setting the DVD Region</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="prep.html#overlay" >X Video Overlay</A ></DT ><DT >2.5. <A HREF="prep.html#dma" >Enabling DMA</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="install.html" >Software Installation</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="install.html#redhat" >Red Hat / Fedora</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="install.html#debian" >Debian</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="install.html#slackware" >Slackware</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="install.html#mandrake" >Mandrake</A ></DT ><DT >3.5. <A HREF="install.html#suse" >SuSE</A ></DT ><DT >3.6. <A HREF="install.html#gentoo" >Gentoo</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="usage.html" >Software Usage</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="usage.html#principles" >General principles: deinterlacing, telecine, and framerates</A ></DT ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="usage.html#AEN345" >Specific usage instructions</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >5. <A HREF="x383.html" >Troubleshooting</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="moreinfo.html" >Further Information</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="intro.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >