Bob
Stan had a DVD movie running with xmovie which is part of Broadcast 2000. I
believe he's running Mandrake 7.2 and I'm not sure what processor. Here are
the links you can check to see if they're what your looking for.
http://heroine.linuxave.net/bcast2000.html
I did a search and found another program which looked interesting but it looks
like it's still in the development stage.
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/979174768/
http://gstreamer.net/
There is xmps which is a divix mpg4 player which I'm not sure if it will
decodes dvd's but I thought I'd throw it in to.
http://xmps.sourceforge.net/pres.php3
I found a couple others which you might look into.
http://home.germany.net/100-5083/
I also found a good source which has more info than I can put down.
http://linuxvideo.org/
I hope this helps you out. I've been considering getting a DVD drive. The
prices are coming down to where cd's drive's were a couple years ago. Let us
know if you get one playing under any of these players.
Tim
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> 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/
>
> --
> K<bob>
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