Okay, I understand now. I've just merged it and will see how it looks. On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:57:45 -0800 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yea, the MPlayer dox are not bad at all. They're a cocky bunch, but > hey, if you reverse engineered half the codecs that they did, you'd be a > bit full of yourself too. > > ALthough, in compelte honesty, MPLayer sux for DVDs. It can play them > just fine, but that's all it can do. Forget menu navigation, > screenshots, and all the other nifty bits that xine _can_ do with DVDs. > That's why i recommend xine for DVDs, its significantly better for them. > > On 01/06/03 17:52, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > The web site mentions that it has DVD capabilities in it - and tells you what you >need to to encrypted! A nice change from xine. > > > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:41:49 -0500 > > "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hmm, I'll look at Mplayer then. I understand almost all of the stuff we use is >done by people like us in our spare time but it seems the docs or at least a decent >overview of what a package does and what you need is lacking on most things out there >- even some of the "professional" ones! > >> > >> Docs are NOT optional! <G>. > >> > >> On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:31:46 -0800 > >> "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > You're right about xine. That's why i only recommend it for playing > >> > DVD's cause just bout everything else is this hazy mist. I'd suggest > >> > going with MPlayer for playing everything but DVDs. It has far better > >> > performance, and supports alot more movie formats than Xine. > >> > > >> > On 01/06/03 17:20, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > >> > > Okay, thanks. That's what I get for assuming! I'm getting ready to merge >xine on my Gentoo and wanted to find out what I really needed (I installed xine on a >WS 3.1 and remember having to sort through all the mess to find out what was what- >but that was a while ago). After reading the xine docs and websites I went to your >SxS on xine. The xine project isn't the best at really telling you what does what >and what you need to do what you want! > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:09:36 -0800 > >> > > "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > > >> > >> On 01/06/03 17:00, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > >> > >> > What is divx4 used for - I assume it's some kind of format for DVDs? > >> > >> > >> > >> Actually it has nothing to do with DVDs. Its for DIVX formatted movies > >> > >> (AVI's mostly). > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 5:55pm up 23 days, 1:03, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.11 > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
