Re: Playing DVDs on Linux
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: FOr some reason, VLC does not produce acceptable speed on my hardware, and I'm yet to be able to figure out why. My config is pentium III/800 MHz, DVD speed is 5x (with the best hdparm setting it can handle), software decoder. Should this hardware produce acceptable speed? The only thing I can think of is that vlc is not able to use my 3dfx, so it's running with the basic video output. That seems likely. I run Xine on a PII/667 with good results, but I have an ATI All-In-Wonder128 32M AGP card, using the Gatos ati.2 driver. IIRC, VideoLAN can use several different display methods depending on the capabilities it can discern from the X config; on my MDK 8.1 system (which has no DVD, and Cirrus Logic video), it uses SDL for the video display. -- Bill Mullen 9:19pm, 2002-07-26 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Playing DVDs on Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, I now have a DVD reader in my computer. It does a fine job reading audio and data CDs, but I had that before. I would like to be able to play movies, too. What, if anything, do people use to watch DVDs on Linux? Open Source software? Commercial software? What experiences -- good or bad -- have people had? Opinions? Gotchas? I use mplayer for DVD playback on my Linux system. Mplayer is GPL'ed, according to freshmeat.net; you can find it at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist. -Anon msg15752/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Playing DVDs on Linux
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have, until now, been avoiding having anything to do with DVDs, due to the issues surrounding their use. (I was afraid I would be arrested for turning it on or something.) However, having watched it become the fastest growing consumer electronics product in history, and having watched DVDs take over the home movie industry, I have conceded defeat in this matter. So, I now have a DVD reader in my computer. It does a fine job reading audio and data CDs, but I had that before. I would like to be able to play movies, too. What, if anything, do people use to watch DVDs on Linux? Open Source software? Commercial software? What experiences -- good or bad -- have people had? Opinions? Gotchas? The primary apps appear to be Xine, Mplayer, VideoLAN and Ogle. I use Xine, on both Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2, and have had good luck with it. Xine homepage: http://xine.sourceforge.net Useful site, includes Xine HOWTO: http://dvd.sourceforge.net Site with d4d plugin for Xine: http://www.captaincss.tk Ogle homepage: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd VideoLAN homepage: http://www.videolan.org Site with binary RPMs for Xine, Mplayer, and Ogle for various recent levels of Mandrake, including libs codecs: http://plf.zarb.org Site with binary RPMs for all four of the players for RedHat 7.3: http://valhalla.freshrpms.net/ The only gotcha is that you need to locate the correct libs if you want to view encrypted DVDs (which you will find to be a very prevalent format), or if you want to use the same player to view files encoded with any of M$' proprietary codecs (which Xine can do, with the codecs installed). Libdvdcss site: http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/download.html Libdvdread site: see Ogle homesite. HTH! -- Bill Mullen 3:41am, 2002-07-25 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Playing DVDs on Linux
Hello all, We now interrupt our regularly scheduled flaming to bring you the following on-topic post. ;-) I have, until now, been avoiding having anything to do with DVDs, due to the issues surrounding their use. (I was afraid I would be arrested for turning it on or something.) However, having watched it become the fastest growing consumer electronics product in history, and having watched DVDs take over the home movie industry, I have conceded defeat in this matter. So, I now have a DVD reader in my computer. It does a fine job reading audio and data CDs, but I had that before. I would like to be able to play movies, too. What, if anything, do people use to watch DVDs on Linux? Open Source software? Commercial software? What experiences -- good or bad -- have people had? Opinions? Gotchas? I basically know nothing about DVD technology, and I am hoping for some intelligent feedback from the many fine minds on this list before I hit Google. -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Playing DVDs on Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello all, stuff about legal issues with DVDs deleted :-) So, I now have a DVD reader in my computer. It does a fine job reading audio and data CDs, but I had that before. I would like to be able to play movies, too. What, if anything, do people use to watch DVDs on Linux? Open Source software? Commercial software? What experiences -- good or bad -- have people had? Opinions? Gotchas? I've used Ogle. I got it as rpms. It even includes the DeCSS part to view encrypted DVDs as a seperately installable library. http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Oh, I'm using it on Mandrake 8.1 8.2 FWIW. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
