I can say for sure that there is an effort to create an open source DVD player (I didn't check if it's downloadable), but they are currently defending themselves on a lawsuit (filed by the film industry, IIRC). http://www.opendvd.org As for a propriety DVD player, I've never heard of any but if you know of one, I know of one person (myself) who'd be interesterd of hearing about : -) Because DVD is a pattent, it has some legal issues with getting it to work with Linux. If a vendor wants to create a driver for an MPEG-2 board, it won't be able to supply the source for the kernel module (as VMWare does), so users will have to download a module for every kernel they use. OTOH, binary-only software MPEG-2 players could be a good solution but would have some performance issues (X11 overhead, for example) and won't have some MPEG-2 card advantages (TV and SPDIF out). Isaac Aaron "Mike Almogy" <lizard@ To: "ILUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> macam98.ac.il cc: > Subject: DVD Sent by: linux-il-boun ce@ cs.huji.ac.il 20/08/00 09:47 Hi ppl. Does anyone has the program to view DVD on Linux ? Thanks, Mike --------------------------------------------------- Mofet Institute - Computer Dpt. +972-3-6901415 +972-52-562237 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
