On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:34:07 +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> Hey all. With all the hoo-ha over DVD and Linux etc I'd never bothered
> playing DVD's with Linux. Someone mentioned "xine" on the list today so I
> apt-got ;) xine and xine-dvd and within a minute I was watching "Ghost in
> the Shell" on my laptop.
whoo, glad to be the mentioner.
however ...
like i said in my earlier e-mail, i've found that Xine (and every single
other movie player on Linux so far) doesn't play interlaced DVDs very well.
for whatever reason, most cartoon-style animation DVDs use interlaced
encoding, and all the Windows DVD players i've seen are far superior in
quality to the Linux players in pure quality. (although the Windows ones
pale massively in comparison to dedicated set-top DVD players.)
i've tested Transformers and Macross Plus as examples of the interlaced DVDs
so far, and they both show interlacing artefacts, which are visible as
horizontal bands repeating down the screen (if you've seen it, you'll know
what i'm talking about).
i've also tried XMovie and it's no better. and the LiViD stuff (omi/oms)
runs at an absolute _crawl_ on my laptop, while I get full framerate in Xine
with zero frames skipped.
i guess i'll have to wait for Xine 0.5 (xine cvs is broken for me at the
moment).
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