Re: DVD Playing on Linux - help for others??

[Jason Greenwood]

Yes, I know, similar on Drake. That doesn't work too well on non-Gentoo 
systems now does it? And if you don't want to compile?? There's the rub. 
Different distros, er, strokes for different folks.

Compiling all that on a less than modern machine aint exactly going to 
be quick now is it? Took me 5 minutes of downloading over 128K adsl and 
then 2 minutes of installing and I was done... =) Statically linked RPMS 
are even better than Gentoo for most smallish programs IMHO. No 
dependency hell, just download, install, use. Simple. With modern cheap 
hard drives, WHO CARES about library duplication?? I certainly don't!!!

Cheers
Jason
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:53, Jason Greenwood wrote:
The setup was straightforward and quick once I found the right info -
which took me until 3am (!)....

3am Egads ( !!! )
emerge --sync ( approx 10 minutes, paradise cable is nice )
emerge vlc ( or xine, or mplayer, or ogle, or kaffeine )
Cook and eat dinner.
Watch film.
Do we need another Gentoo mini-InstallFest?