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Thanks David. David Hummel wrote: >It depends on whether or not you are using a display manager (xdm, gdm, >kdm, etc.) or starting the X session manually. If the former, then yes >the rc scripts. If the latter, then the xinit/Xsession scripts. > I am using the Gnome interface in FC3. I tried something last night that helped play back the 720 line progressive WMV files which was to log out and log in using a console. That helped a lot. Now, if I set the priority of the window and font servers and add some RAM, that may be just enough to play the 1080 line WMV files. However, a bigger problem has cropped up which is that all the DVDs with WMV-HD use Microsoft's DRM (digital rights management) The sample clips do not so they play fine - and look GORGEOUS on say a DLP projector. There are two types of MS DRM: online and offline. For titles like Terminator 2, it uses online DRM which means that before you can play the title, the player software has to message a DRM server via the Internet for permission. Yes, this is very Big Brother and users just need to boycott those titles. Fortunately, titles like all the IMAX ones are offline DRM which can get the info from the DVD itself. The only problem as far as I know is that mplayer on Linux does not support DRM in any fashion. If anyone has ideas on this, please let me know. I am interested in watching legally purchased titles but on the platform of my choice. Does this sound reminiscent of DECSS? Yes it does.
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