-----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 (-: