Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3959 mails)

[Ed Harrison <ed.tman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 02:06, Marino Fernandez wrote:
> OK, I tried Ogle... it is easier to install, just 3 or
> 4 rpms (one of them I couldn't/needed, since I already
> have xine, I think libdvdcss)... but I am not
> impressed. The GUI is much less appealing (and I won't
> use another adjetive because I do not want to hurt
> anybody feelings), there is some junk on the menus
> that I do not see with Xine,

Do you want to play with the GUI or watch movies? 8-)

>  and I cannot play
> DivX/XviD... finally the image is squashed
> horizontally (taller tha wider)... 

I haven't tried divX, so I have no opinion here.
You can resize ogle very easily with the mouse.  I usually watch it full
screen.

> 
> Being fair I have to admit that with Xine the image is
> more pixelated than with ogle... although with ogle
> the image is smaller and squashed; I think this
> problems with ogle and xine, has to do with the fact
> that my video card (i830m) does not support Xv (with
> out some tweaking, that I have not attempted yet). So
> the images in xine are pixelated, and in ogle are
> squashed and do not fit the whole of the screen (the
> video does not scale).
> 
> Anyway. Xine is more like winDVD, including DivX and
> Xvid support and the ability to be remotely controlled.
> 
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Ed Harrison <ed.tman@xxxxxxxxxxx>