>> Ogle and related ports >> >> x11/ogle >> x11/ogle-gui >> x11/goggles >> >> The main homepages: >> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ >> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~dvd/ >> etc. > > Ogle is still one of the best dvd players out there (if not the best), with > support for chapters and menus that actually *works*. Plus, the intuitive > interface and bookmarkings (especially the goggles frontend). > > It has a few (very few) limitations: it cannot be used to encode dvds, nor > does it support Closed-Caption subtitles. > > Contrary to (say) mplayer, it also has a decent decoding model that use > separate processes for various things. Thus, it can play dvds on multi-core > machines that would be unable to do so otherwise (yes, I realize those are > a bit old these days). > > Also, it does not depend on the kitchen sink: > echo$ SUBDIR=x11/ogle make all-dir-depends|tsort|wc -l > 22 > echo$ SUBDIR=x11/vlc make all-dir-depends|tsort|wc -l > 151 > echo$ SUBDIR=x11/mplayer make all-dir-depends|tsort|wc -l > 68 > > Obsolete you say ? by no mean !
Sorry for that, guys. This convinced me, less dependencies is what I like, I will try it out too.
