On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:15:33PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> Anyone use ogle to watch dvd's?  I've been out of the movie scene since
> vhs, but my laptop has an 8x dvd drive in it.  I've been thinking of
> getting a dvd and downloading ogle and checking it out.  Any warnings?
> Compatibility issues?

I use ogle.  Ogle uses libdvdread, which currently can't seek backward.
The UI isn't quite the same as you'd get from a standalone DVD player, and
I'd be careful what keys I pressed when in fullscreen mode.  I've managed
to get it not responding to keypresses before by pressing something that
confused it - I have NFI what it was though.


> Is divx the format DVD's are recorded in?  So ogle plays divx movies?  

DVDs are recorded in MPEG2 with a variety of audio formats.  One of the
most common ones is AC3, which is basically a six channel mp3.

DivX is a modified MPEG4 format, which is a lot smaller but needs more CPU
to display.

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<Crow_> hmm, is there a --now-dammit option for exim?

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