Thanks.  I don't have access to a hardware decoder, so i really don't 
have any relevant experience to add.  If anyone wants to send me one, i 
promise to put it through the paces  :)

THat, or if anyone has experience, please let me know, and i can ammend 
my writeup.

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Nice job, Lonnie.  This is very well laid out.  I struggled through this
> on my own with very little information... and still was a bit fuzzy on
> what was important and what I had done over and above what I needed to. 
> This didn't leave me feeling very good about Video playong on Linux...  I
> must say, your observation of minimum HW is accurate.  I have had quite a
> few headaches with poor quality on my 450.  One additional area you might
> hit on could be whether it helps to have the HW Decoder and how to use it,
> if any way exists.  I believe all the libdvdcss stuff takes the place of
> the decoder card, but of course at a large cost.  OTOH, I had DVD's
> playing well on my ThinkPad 770Z, back when I actually HAD a decent
> laptop.  I believe it had the decoder built-in, so it ran fine on a 366. 
> Of course, That was before I used Linux like I do, and before the Xine and
> mplayer projects were quite so good... and before your succinct SxS.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:39:30 -0400
> "Nobody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Net Llama! has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/dvdplay.html to
>>incorporate the following: New &amp; Updated for the latest Xine


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