Upgrade and be damned!

An hour playing around with Xine and MythTV, and what do I get? A DVD player that exits without any visible error at the menu screen two times out of three. And if that wasn't enough, pressing the menu button once will get you the Xine menu -- pressing it twice will get the MythTV splash screen, but the movie is still playing: the sound is there, but the video isn't. Holy crap.

The last time this was happening, I'd rented Hero. All was going well, when I accidentally hit the Back button on the XBox remote; this dumped me back into MythTV. Annoying but no problem, right? Just start up Xine again, and...it crapped out after all the warnings about how copying DVDs makes Baby Jesus cry. Well, I was skipping those, so how about if I try sitting through them? Same thing.

My memories are clouded by the red cloud of rage, but I believe I tried running Xine on my desktop machine with X forwarding on. I managed to get an error message about how this was an encrypted DVD, and I should look at getting libdvdcss (assuming it's legal in my jurisdiction). I already had this, of course.

I tried removing the .libdvdcss files with the cached keys -- that took a while to track down -- but nope, same thing. I tried other players, too. gxine did the same thing, natch. mplayer dumped core (this was the Debian package, which I'd never tried using before; I didn't want to bother compiling it from source).

Ogle was the only damned thing that worked, but I couldn't figure out how to make it do fullscreen. I didn't have these problems with the older version of Xine that was installed before I upgraded Xebian. Teach me to upgrade...

On the plus side, though, I've figured out that (for Napoleon Dynamite at least) it does work with some persistance. It's a damned good thing I love Linux so much.