<quote who="Rev Simon Rumble"> > On Fri 31 May, Jeff Waugh made the following spurious claims: > > > Right now, I'd recommend Xine. It seems to have the best performance to pain > > ratio. MPlayer is very fast, but the developers are not very welcoming (I'm > > being particularly kind here), whilst Ogle and VLC are not quite as fast or > > functional. > > Actually, I would recommend Ogle right now. It is the only player > I've found to support all my DVDs menuing systems. However I actually > use mplayer because I have a DVD decoder card and Ogle doesn't support > such things yet. >
If you combine xine with the dvdnav plugin, you get great menu support and playback for encrypted dvd's (encrypted dvds are played via a 'hot potato' blame passing chain though*). The dvdnav plugin uses a snapshot of the ogle code for the menu support, regularly updated. In addition, xine does loads of other formats, whereas ogle is all about DVD. Cheers, J. * DVD decryption is delegated to the libdvdread library, which delegates it to libcss or libdvdcss. No one really wants to take the fall for any legal issues. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came for the quality. I stayed for the freedom. -- Sean Neakums -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
