Both mplayer and xine work very well under gentoo. I use both. they seem to do anything that is thrown at them, bizarre codecs that don't work happily under windows included.
I never had either working well under other distros - the secret I think is the win32codecs and the libdvdcss, both of which the mainstream distros seem reluctant to put on their cd's. You need to include USE=dvd under gentoo, to get dvd menus and stuff. I also needed to tweak the audio output from mplayer I think - to set it to use arts (I use kde). The first few times you run either, do it from an xterm, there are informative mesages scrolling by. I have a shorrtcut on the desktop to make it easy for my son to play a dvd, it executes: xine -pf dvdnav:// -f - fullscreen -p - start playing Oh one last thing, set up the /dev/dvd device in devfs.conf in each app, they may default to fullscreen, good for watching but bad for experimenting and setting up. Either change it on the command line or hit the "f' key while playing. (its a toggle) On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 12:52:35 +0000 Shane Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am building a new box for my wife (shane polishes his halo) with DVD. Can > anyone suggest or recommend an easy to use DVD media player for Linux? THe > box will be running either Redhat 9 or else Gentoo. Am still making up my > mind and trying things out. > > TIA > > Shane > Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.rout.co.nz
