On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:56:29AM +0000, Giovanni Mugnai wrote: > > Can you try to play a vob file from DVD using Haiku MediaPlayer? > Let me know. Sorry about my newbieness in this area... what's a vob file? > > > Now I've done something else that again prevents SMPlayer's > > panel appearing, even though the program is running -- dunno > > what. I'll wait until I've got a newer Haiku rev installed, in case that's > > a problem. > > If you start SMPlayer from Desktop, it delete some tmp files (lock tmp > file) which should solve this. I tried that when the lockup happened. Didn't work. I'll check those files, though. > Meantime, I did get the necessary libraries installed in Linux (in the end, only libdvdcss was missing, but I wouldn't have known from all the "helpful" advice around (:-/). And the same dvds play flawlessly in MoviePlayer. The DVD Menus are hardly perfect there, either -- when I try to select an episode, the app just freezes and has to be killed! I *can* select scenes, though -- go figure... Thanks, -- Pete --