[PROBLEM] USB 2.0 DVDRW can't read DVD

[rubin110]

Wow lots of discussion.

So to clarify, with Xbian latest beta I was able to get a Region 1 DVD movie to start up, play the video intro to whatever the movie house made Seven, then get into the DVD menu. I was able to interact with the menu, but was unable to start up the actual movie.

It's been a long while since I've looked into how DVD movies are built. This encryption you all speak of, is it the whole disc or just particular VOB files on the disc? Would that be specifically why when I try to play the video it barfs?

Starting to feel like an easier solution is to just plug the DVD drive to my server and ask my housemates who insist on wanting to watch DVD movies to simply pop the disc into that drive and have a series of scripts deal with ripping, transcoding, and dumping it somewhere on the network for Xbian to play.

I hate optical media.