My DVD-ROM drive exhibits the peculiar behavior of refusing to properly authenticate if the drive is not "spun up." Previously I had worked around this by starting my media player "dd if=/dev/dvd of=/dev/null; mplayer dvd://" and just hitting Ctrl+C once the drive made enough noise :-)
<br><br>However, I've found that the attached patch fixes this issue for me, and allows the drive to authenticate and movie-viewing to proceed smoothly, whether the drive was spinning to begin with or not. I am not, however, sure that this is the correct way to fix things. Does this even belong in libdvdcss, or in some other software component entirely? Please advise.
<br><br>Thanks<br>-- <br>-Steven Walter <<a href="mailto:stevenrwalter@gmail.com">stevenrwalter@gmail.com</a>><br>"If you think healthcare is expensive now, you should see how much it costs when it's free."
<br> - P.J. O'Rourke