Since recently switching from the open source to the binary VIA Xserver, I always had an annoying gray bar near the upper left corner of my screen. It would go away by switching to a text mode framebuffer and back...

My VIA Epia board is a bit weak to decode DVDs with the processor, so it has a hardware mpeg2 decoder on board. On Windows, this can be accessed with either PowerDVD http://www.cyberlink.com/ or WinDVD http://www.intervideo.com/ Googling reveals that there...