I've tried Princess Mononoke Region 1 disk, and it still froze.
Interestingly enough, I recently tried running a DivX film off of the DVD drive (well it was on CD) and that ran just fine. Then I tried to play a VOB file directly and it froze. I then copied the VOB file to my harddrive and then it seem to run just fine.
Anyway have any clues?
Steph