On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have, until now, been avoiding having anything to do with DVDs, due to > the "issues" surrounding their use. (I was afraid I would be arrested for > turning it on or something.) However, having watched it become the fastest > growing consumer electronics product in history, and having watched DVDs > take over the home movie industry, I have conceded defeat in this matter. > > So, I now have a DVD reader in my computer. It does a fine job reading > audio and data CDs, but I had that before. I would like to be able to play > movies, too. What, if anything, do people use to watch DVDs on Linux? > Open Source software? Commercial software? What experiences -- good or bad > -- have people had? Opinions? Gotchas?
The primary apps appear to be Xine, Mplayer, VideoLAN and Ogle. I use Xine, on both Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2, and have had good luck with it. Xine homepage: http://xine.sourceforge.net Useful site, includes Xine HOWTO: http://dvd.sourceforge.net Site with d4d plugin for Xine: http://www.captaincss.tk Ogle homepage: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd VideoLAN homepage: http://www.videolan.org Site with binary RPMs for Xine, Mplayer, and Ogle for various recent levels of Mandrake, including libs & codecs: http://plf.zarb.org Site with binary RPMs for all four of the players for RedHat 7.3: http://valhalla.freshrpms.net/ The only gotcha is that you need to locate the correct libs if you want to view "encrypted" DVDs (which you will find to be a very prevalent format), or if you want to use the same player to view files encoded with any of M$' proprietary codecs (which Xine can do, with the codecs installed). Libdvdcss site: http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/download.html Libdvdread site: see Ogle homesite. HTH! -- Bill Mullen 3:41am, 2002-07-25 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
