> I recall someone having asked if the DVD cdrom worked in Linux. Someone
> replied that it worked, but I don't recall that person saying that it works
> not only with ordinary CD's, but also with DVD CDs. I booted into Linux
> (slackware 3.5, kernel 2.0.34) and looked at what was mounted and found
> /dev/hdc mounted on /cdrom . Doing a "df", the /dev/hdc file system shows
> 4,002,750 1024 byte blocks . I can see a regular file system in /cdrom,
> with directories "audio_ts", "video_ts", "xtras", "z_iso960", and a
> "pcdvd.exe" file in the root of /cdrom . So if there is a Linux DVD player,
> I should be able to view DVD movies in Linux. Cool.
Well don't hold your breath... Any player has to interface with the PCMCIA
MPEG decoder card and the special high speed interface to the frame buffer.
Of course, I may not really know what I'm talking about...
Jack
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