On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:46, Robert L Martin wrote: > Given a stock 8.1 install (soon to be a box set install) how would one > 1 get a functioning dvd playing program running
Can't speak to that, don't have a DVD drive, never set one up, would expect it to work out of the box. Playing encoded content is a different matter, hop on http://www.google.com/ and search for DivX? > 2 setup Internet AutoDial (without 8 miles of text hacking) Click on the Mandrake Configurator icon, choose network, choose type of connection, make sure start-on-boot and persistent checkboxes are ticked, click OK. End of story. This even works instantly and out of the box, to my amazement, for Telstra's labrynthine PPPoE ADSL connections (two NATs on way to world, no static IPs). > 3 create iso files for later burning to disk (not to mention the burn > itself) Click on K menu icon, Applications, Archiving, CD Burning. I have a choice of 4 GUI point-and-click apps. However, the quickest way to make an ISO CD image is... mkisofs -J -o myisofile.iso /path/to/files ...and to burn it is... cdrecord -scanbus (and find burner's SCSI number, XXX below) cdrecord dev=XXX myisofile.iso BTW, it has been written down that a Pentium 200 will not make coasters while running 4xSCSI-6-speed burners at once under Linux. Given my own experiences with SCSI, plus performance enhancements in the kernel since then, you could probably keep a dozen SCSI 12-speed burners (-: gross! :-) happy on anything modern, ie, burn full 80-minute CDs at a rate of one every 35 seconds. Is that good enough?
