Which DVD Drives work best with SuSE?
I currently have a cdrom which I would like to replace with a DVD drive.
Questions:
1) What are some of the better dvd drives wrt Linux? Will just about any
drive work?
2) Will the DVD drive also operate as a normal cdrom drive?
Looking forward to installing SuSE using a single disk.
Thanks,
Terry
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Terry Eck
-----Original Message----- From: Terry Eck [mailto:eck@raytheon.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:28 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Which DVD Drives work best with SuSE?
I currently have a cdrom which I would like to replace with a DVD drive. Questions: 1) What are some of the better dvd drives wrt Linux? Will just about any drive work? 2) Will the DVD drive also operate as a normal cdrom drive? Looking forward to installing SuSE using a single disk.
Terry The only DVD drive which can now be used in Linux as a DVD player is the Creaive Retail box that contains their hardware decoder card, I do not recall which model that is but you can always check the Creative site. The reason being is that their card is the only one for which a Linux driver is available. There are no software DVD players that will work in Linux. DVD is not open source it is both licensed and proprietary. Should you wish clarification or more info you can check the following sites http://linuxtv.org/dvd/ http://dvdsoft.hotmail.ru/dvdinlinux.html Any DVD drive can be used the same as a CD-ROM though the top read speed on the fastest DVD is 40X. My advise is that unless you also run Windows (where you can view dvds) is for the time being to stick with a CD-ROM drive. Charles (-:
Charles A Edwards wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Terry Eck [mailto:eck@raytheon.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:28 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Which DVD Drives work best with SuSE?
I currently have a cdrom which I would like to replace with a DVD drive. Questions: 1) What are some of the better dvd drives wrt Linux? Will just about any drive work? 2) Will the DVD drive also operate as a normal cdrom drive? Looking forward to installing SuSE using a single disk.
Terry
The only DVD drive which can now be used in Linux as a DVD player is the Creaive Retail box that contains their hardware decoder card, I do not recall which model that is but you can always check the Creative site. The reason being is that their card is the only one for which a Linux driver is available. There are no software DVD players that will work in Linux. DVD is not open source it is both licensed and proprietary. Should you wish clarification or more info you can check the following sites
Have a look at http://xine.sourceforge.net I have been succesfully watching RPC 2 ( regional protection ) DVDs for a long time now with no major problems. Ok it is not as WinDVD yet but who cares -- Togan Muftuoglu
But where can one find the CSS plugin for XINE? I don't have any non-css
DVDs to watch,
Avi
--On Monday, January 22, 2001 07:32:01 PM +0200 Togan Muftuoglu
Charles A Edwards wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Terry Eck [mailto:eck@raytheon.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:28 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Which DVD Drives work best with SuSE?
I currently have a cdrom which I would like to replace with a DVD drive. Questions: 1) What are some of the better dvd drives wrt Linux? Will just about any drive work? 2) Will the DVD drive also operate as a normal cdrom drive? Looking forward to installing SuSE using a single disk.
Terry
The only DVD drive which can now be used in Linux as a DVD player is the Creaive Retail box that contains their hardware decoder card, I do not recall which model that is but you can always check the Creative site. The reason being is that their card is the only one for which a Linux driver is available. There are no software DVD players that will work in Linux. DVD is not open source it is both licensed and proprietary. Should you wish clarification or more info you can check the following sites
Have a look at http://xine.sourceforge.net I have been succesfully watching RPC 2 ( regional protection ) DVDs for a long time now with no major problems. Ok it is not as WinDVD yet but who cares
-- Togan Muftuoglu
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Avi Schwartz wrote:
But where can one find the CSS plugin for XINE? I don't have any non-css DVDs to watch,
http://gape.ist.utl.pt/ment00/linuxdvd.html for a complete xine with css plugin enabled or http://members.nbci.com/captain_css/ for just the css plugin -- Togan Muftuoglu
greetings- i think we missed the point here. terry did not ask about watching dvd's on a linux box. he wants to use a dvd for data retreival. won't dvd drives install and function with linux? his second question is also significant. can he use a dvd drive to read cd-roms? thanks- larry Terry Eck wrote:
I currently have a cdrom which I would like to replace with a DVD drive. Questions: 1) What are some of the better dvd drives wrt Linux? Will just about any drive work? 2) Will the DVD drive also operate as a normal cdrom drive? Looking forward to installing SuSE using a single disk. Thanks, Terry
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