I gave up on playing dvds for now, but have everything else working good. I tested xbmc dvdplayer on XP and it did not do such a great job of playing dvds... For XP... One dvd just continued to show the dvd menu after the movie started, I had sound but no video, only the menu... On another dvd it would pause every few seconds, some sort of buffering issue. At that point decided to keep my old dvd player for playing movies and just use xbmc for digital stuff. I am now looking for remotes or other means of wireless control.