Thus spake Andre Pang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 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.
> 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 don't why but my experience has been the opposite (wierd). "Ghost in
the Shell" would not play properly on Windows machines, audio was
absolutely horrible. This morning's trip was a sheer delite watching "GiTS",
a visual masterpiece, with the only drawback being unable to watch it in
anything other than English(US) - Americans sure know how to loose the
atmosphere of a movie.
For those who are going "Wtf is GiTS" it is a Japanese "Anime" film
which seems to contravene the "cartoon" theory but certainly makes sense
when viewed in the light of "for TV" because GiTS was made for
film/cinema and so therefore may follow the "it wasn't made for TV so
therefore isn't interlaced" theory. I do not know if it is interlaced, I
only know that I can watch it flawlessly ;)
Thanks to another post, I'll be able to watch it in Japanese with
subtitle's tonight! It just get's better.
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Cheers,
Craige.
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