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Re: Windows Vista drivers (or Netflix watch now on Linux)



 > Unfortunately, one day last week I had a DVD from Netflix that my 
> cheap Apex DVD player wouldn't read, even after I did the windex 
> thing, so I decided to try playing it in the Pavilion DVD drive. 
> Neither operating system did this out of the box -- Linux said I 
> needed more codecs and Windows said I needed a better video driver. 
> So I gave them both what they said they wanted.  At this point, 
> Windows looked like it thought it was playing the DVD, but I couldn't 
> hear the sound.  Linux had problems with Totem and Mplayer, but VLC 
> would play the DVD pretty well, even though I still missed a bit of a 
> couple of tracks, and I couldn't figure out how to do the fast forward 
> or reverse. 
> 
> The worst thing is that the next time I tried to boot Windows, it went 
> to 800x600 graphics, and I can't figure out how to tell it to do 
> 1080p.  I have upgraded the video driver (the one I gave it first was 
> the one that came in the box with the card; now there's one it found 
> on the internet), but it still won't do 1080p, or play sound.  Linux, 
> and the HP splash screen, and the boot menu, are all using 1080p, and 
> Linux is playing sound fine, so I don't see how it can be the 
> connections. 


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