We have two DVDisks at our house now, and a PC with a DVD-ROM drive,
but no DVD player. I'm trying to get Linux to play the DVDs.
Is anybody successfully watching DVD movies on a Linux box?
If so, what are you using?
application?
kernel?
X server?
video card?
CPU?
I've gotten xine 0.3.5 to almost work. I copied and decrypted the
first chapter of video off the DVD drive using css_cat, then used xine
to play the resulting MPEG file. Xine drops lots of frames, both
because it can't keep up, and because it gets decoding errors
(nondeterministicly). Also, there is no audio. The speakers go
"thunk" when xine opens the audio device, but doesn't play any sound.
I've tried audio tracks 1-10.
Also, the DVD filesystem gets an I/O error reading any data beyond the
first Gb on the disk. I'm guessing that's a kernel issue.
I've also tried OMS and "complete Xine" (the official xine release
doesn't have deCSS, but "complete Xine" does). No real success with
either.
Is anybody doing better than this?
To answer my own questions, I'm using: xine 0.3.5, linux 2.2.16 w/
Mandrake patches, I've tried both XFree86 3.3.1 and 4.0.2. The video
card is a Number Nine Revolution IV, and the CPU is a 450 MHz Pentium
II.
Links:
official xine http://xine.sourceforge.net/
complete xine http://gape.ist.utl.pt/ment00/linuxdvd.html
oms http://www.linuxvideo.org/
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